Donald Trump has made good on his promise to release 80,000 pages of documents relating to John F Kennedy's assassination.
The 35th President, who has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists, was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald during a visit to Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Washington released the latest tranche of documents shortly after lawyers launched an "urgent review" before granting approval ahead of publication.
Documents released ranged from typewritten reports to handwritten notes.
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A set of papers even address speculation that Kennedy's killer left the USSR in 1962 with the intention of assassinating the popular President.
Discussing Oswald being killed by Jack Ruby just a few days after the JFK assassination, one memo simply said: "There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead."
However, experts have already cast doubt about whether the documents will alter the official conclusion that Oswald operated alone.
Earlier this week, Trump discussed the imminent release of the collection of around 2,000 once-classified documents.
He said: "We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading."
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The JFK documents were finally made public late last night along with the following message from the National Archives and Records Administration: “In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released.”
Trump, who already released separate documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination during his first term in the White House, committed to releasing the remaining information on the 2024 US Presidential Election campaign trail.
Trump is also expected to declassify documents relating to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
A federal law passed in 1992 required the Kennedy assassination papers to be fully released in 2017, excluding documents deemed to pose an "identifiable harm" to national security.
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The documents released in 2017 included details on the FBI and CIA investigations into Oswald and information on covert Cold War operations.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, who ran against Trump before joining his campaign, welcomed the 47th President's announcement, with the nephew of the 35th President saying: "Thank you, President Trump, for trusting American citizens and for taking the first step down the road towards reversing this disastrous trajectory."
The US Health Secretary's father, former Attorney General RFK, was fatally shot by Palestinian-Jordanian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan during his 1968 White House bid.
MLK was killed just a few months earlier after the 39-year-old civil rights activist travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support African-American sanitation workers during a walkout.
