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Washington<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The Trump administration has released tens of thousands of pages of government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, weeks after President Trump ordered government agencies to\u00a0make their JFK files public<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documents were uploaded by the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency responsible for housing the government’s collection of records related to the assassination. The Archives said Tuesday that “all records previously withheld for classification” have been released, but not all are available online yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after taking office in January, the president took executive action<\/a> to establish a process to declassify and release any remaining documents related to Kennedy’s killing, as well as the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The order instructed the director of national intelligence and attorney general to present the president with a plan for the “full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, the FBI said it had discovered<\/a> roughly 2,400 records related to the assassination during a search stemming from Mr. Trump’s executive action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s in the newly released JFK files?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump estimated the new files contain roughly 80,000 pages. The media has a team of reporters sifting through the records to identify what documents contain new information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the records were expected to be unredacted versions of documents that have been released but partially obscured in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers have estimated<\/a> there are about 3,000 records related to the case that hadn’t been previously released in full. There are 1,123 documents of varying lengths in Tuesday’s online release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various investigations into the JFK assassination over the years \u2014 some as recently as the 1990s \u2014 swept up classified information that dealt with intelligence gathering methods and friendly foreign governments but were not directly linked to the assassination. Portions of documents, and some entire records, had remained classified for decades to protect sources and methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Barrett, a professor of political science at Villanova University who studies the Kennedy presidency, was examining the documents on Tuesday evening. He told the media that “non-scholars who dive into these documents are going to be baffled as to what most of them have to do with the Kennedy or other assassinations.” For scholars like him, however, he said it is “certainly the most useful release of documents that has occurred because of the redactions being removed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now I know who or what is being referred to. So a memorandum on CIA relations with the Miami newspapers, for example, and details on three CIA officers doing technical collection of intelligence in Cuba \u2014 I’ve never really had those details before,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the release, Barrett said he didn’t expect “earth-shaking information, either with regard to the assassination or more broadly.” “But, you know, you never know,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century,” told the Associated Press that his team is going through the released files in search of a “long, long list” of sensitive documents that were previously heavily redacted. He believes some of those passages may concern Cuba or “what the CIA did or didn’t do relevant to Lee Harvey Oswald,” Kennedy’s assassin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where to read the new JFK assassination files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The documents have been uploaded to a portal maintained by the National Archives, which can be found here<\/a>. The Archives maintains the government’s trove of records known as the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all of the files are available online yet, however. Some are available “in person, via hard copy or on analog media formats” at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the records that are only available in person are being digitized and will be uploaded to the Archives in the coming days. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will post updates on social media, and the records will also be on the White House website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional documents remain under court seal, including some for reasons of grand jury secrecy. Other IRS-related documents must be unsealed before release, and the Archives and Justice Department are working on making these available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Mary Ferrell Foundation<\/a>, a nonprofit that compiles historical government records about the JFK assassination and other events, roughly 3,500 documents in the official collection contained redactions before the latest release. About 75% of those records were produced by the CIA. More than 500 other records were withheld from public release entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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