Trump announced the release of 80,000 pages of classified material on the assassination of John F. Kennedy

President Donald Trump announced Monday during a media interview that his administration will release some 80,000 pages of classified material on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday. "People have been waiting for decades for this. We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...I don't believe we are are going to redact anything...it's going to be very interesting...approximately 80,000 pages," the Republican leader declared at the Kennedy Center.

During his presidential campaign, Trump explained that, if elected, one of his first actions would be the declassification of material related to the assassination not only of the former Democratic president but also of his brother, Robert Kennedy, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. This promise materialized when he signed an executive order instructing the country's federal government to formally present a plan for the publication of these documents, assuring that "all will be revealed."

Despite this, some analysts have commented that the disclosure of these classified documents on Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, will hardly serve to clarify once and for all everything related to his assassination since millions of records on this event are still pending full declassification. Although the president had promised during his first administration to declassify these files, in the end, he did not do so in the face of formal requests from both the FBI and the CIA to withhold some of the documents.

An event that changed history

The assassination of the former president took place in downtown Dallas, in front of the Texas School Book Depository building, as his motorcade moved forward through a crowd. The Democratic leader was shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was on the sixth floor of the building and used a sniper rifle. Kennedy was in a convertible car with his wife, Jackie.

Two days after the event, a man named Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald while he was being transported to jail, unleashing with this event one of the most important conspiracy theories of the entire 20th century. Many assured that there was a second shooter, and others argued that Oswald's assassination could prove the involvement of other actors in the assassination.