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(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump promised to merchandise each remaining sealed documents related to the assassination of erstwhile President John F. Kennedy if helium is reelected.
Trump made the connection astatine a rally implicit the weekend, reigniting speculation astir what those documents from the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination backmost successful 1964, mightiness reveal.
Kennedy documents acceptable for release
Congress passed a instrumentality successful 1992 intending to enactment to remainder questions astir the assassination by declassifying records and making them each disposable by October 2017.
Trump released much than 50,000 documents during his administration, but immoderate 3,000 redacted records stay sealed today. Officials accidental it's owed to nationalist information concerns.
President Joe Biden besides cleared the mode for further documents to beryllium released, but near it up to idiosyncratic agencies to decide.
According to Trump, if helium wins the 2024 election, a caller "panel of experts" volition enactment to merchandise immoderate and each remaining sealed Kennedy documents.
Trump promises to merchandise remaining docs
“I americium announcing contiguous that upon my predetermination I volition found a caller autarkic statesmanlike committee connected assassination attempts, and they volition beryllium tasked with releasing each the remaining documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” Trump said astatine the rally.
Trump's pledge came arsenic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., JFK's nephew, suspended his statesmanlike campaign connected Friday and gave his endorsement to the erstwhile president.
While astir historians judge that astir of what has been released astir the Kennedy assassination effort has painted a implicit picture, immoderate conspiracy theories astir his decease remain.
It’s inactive argued that the CIA whitethorn person been alert of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald possibly arsenic overmuch arsenic a twelvemonth earlier the assassination. However, the CIA has said Oswald was not moving with the agency.
