Skip to Main Content National News U.S. authorities have actually pointed out personal privacy and nationwide security issues several times for holding off the release of some files.
In this Nov. 23, 1963, file image, surrounded by investigators, Lee Harvey Oswald speaks with the media as he is led down a passage of the Dallas police headquarters for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. AP Photo
By Kyle Melnick, Washington Post
After independent governmental prospect Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his project and backed Donald Trump on Friday, the Republican candidate vowed that if he's chosen to the White House, he will launch all the files associated with the 1963 assassination of Kennedy's uncle.
“This is a homage in honor of Bobby,” Trump stated at a Friday night rally in the Phoenix location. “I will develop a brand-new independent governmental commission on assassination efforts, and they will be charged with launching all of the staying files referring to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
For years after the killing, numerous files associated with the occasion were kept from the general public, stimulating conspiracy theories.
The Warren Commission, which was developed a week after John F. Kennedy's death in November 1963, stated that shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas. Others have actually continued to question whether Oswald worked with Soviet, Cuban or CIA representatives. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. informed a New York radio station in 2015 that he thinks the CIA was associated with his uncle's murder.
Congress passed a law more than 3 years earlier planned to lay to rest concerns about the assassination by declassifying pertinent records, however there stay more than 3,000 files that still consist of redactions, according to the National Archives and Records Administration, leaving some scientists puzzled.
When were the files expected to be launched?
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 stated that all the files about the assassination need to be made openly readily available by October 2017. The law enabled U.S. authorities to delay the release of files if they believed nationwide security and personal privacy issues exceeded the public interest in disclosure.
Approximately 320,000 files were determined and slated to be declassified after the law passed.
The law was signed the year after the release of director Oliver Stone's political thriller”JFK,” an imaginary representation of a New Orleans district lawyer who discovered proof of a conspiracy behind Kennedy's death.
What files stay concealed?
U.S. authorities have actually mentioned personal privacy and nationwide security issues several times for holding off the release of some files.
When he was president in 2017, Trump revealed that he prepared to openly divulge the staying files however eventually postponed the release of some apply for nationwide security factors, stating they would be launched by October 2021. In 2018, Trump licensed the disclosure of 19,045 files,
