Around 80,000 pages of JFK files will be released on Tuesday, Trump says

Trump to unveil JFK assassination files, including newly found FBI documents on the 1963 killing.

By REUTERS
Updated: MARCH 17, 2025 23:52
President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on October 23, 1962 (photo credit: REUTERS/CECIL STOUGHTON/THE WHITE HOUSE/JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY)
President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on October 23, 1962
(photo credit: REUTERS/CECIL STOUGHTON/THE WHITE HOUSE/JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY)

US President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his administration will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to the former president on Tuesday.

"People have been waiting for decades for this," Trump told reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Center in Washington.

"It's going to be very interesting."

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY in the limousine in Dallas, minutes before he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Also in the presidential limousine: first lady Jackie Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY in the limousine in Dallas, minutes before he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Also in the presidential limousine: first lady Jackie Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)

FBI finds JFK documents

Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to present a plan to release records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said in early February it had found thousands of new documents related to the assassination of Kennedy.

Trump signed an order during his first week in office related to the release and promised to release also documents concerning the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.



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