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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said Friday that individuals volition beryllium capable to marque their ain “determination” arsenic to who killed erstwhile President John F. Kennedy.
“I don't deliberation there's thing that's world shattering,” said Trump. “But you'll person to marque that determination.”
Following up connected Trump’s promise, the National Archives released thousands of documents related to Kennedy's assassination.
Many of the documents are handwritten oregon blurred owed to property and are hard to search, truthful historians and journalists are inactive pouring done them to uncover caller details, but present is what is known truthful far.
Exactly what accusation successful the documents is caller and what is aged is hard to determine.
The lone mode to intelligibly archer what accusation is caller is to comparison the documents to older versions antecedently released by the National Archives, a laborious process.
The documents besides were not classified oregon sorted successful immoderate way, truthful it could instrumentality days to find what caller accusation was really released.
So far, determination hasn’t been immoderate “smoking gun” that would validate decades-old conspiracies astir the assassination.
Sensitive idiosyncratic information, including Social Security numbers, was revealed successful the recently unredacted documents.
Joseph diGenova, a erstwhile run lawyer for President Donald Trump, was among those whose idiosyncratic accusation was disclosed. He said helium is readying to writer the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for violating privateness laws implicit concerns astir individuality theft.
Trump, speaking from the Oval Office connected Friday, confirmed the merchandise of Social Security numbers.
“We adjacent released societal information numbers,” helium said. “I didn't privation thing deleted.”
NewsNation's Steph Whiteside contributed to this report.