President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. Yet, the murder of the president has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories almost since the moment it happened.
Despite multiple government investigations, many have suspected the long-accepted details told to the public about the assassination were not entirely truthful. Now, over 60 years later, the country could soon find out if any conspiracies surrounding the murder exist.
During a rally on Sunday at Capitol One arena in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his election victory and upcoming inauguration on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would release public records about Kennedy’s assassination. He said he would do the same for records on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on June 6, 1968, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was murdered on April 4, 1968.
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump said. “And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other topics of great public interest. It’s all going to be released.”
Trump’s comments were met with applause by the thousands of supporters in attendance.
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The president-elect has been a proponent of releasing Kennedy’s records. He first vowed to do so during his first presidential campaign in 2016 to comply with the specifications of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which established a deadline for 2017 to release any remaining information regarding the assassination. He changed his mind, however, citing multiple reasons for doing so.
Reportedly, 99% of the archived files on the JFK assassination have been made available for public viewing; nevertheless, over 3000 remain to be released.