President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed in Dallas (Texas) on November 22, 1963. More than six decades after his death, part of the documents held by the authorities on the investigation of that murder were still confidential. This Tuesday, the National Archives have add tens of thousands of pages that remain totally or partially confidential. The vast majority of the collection of national archives, which has more than six million pages of records, photographs, movies, sound recordings and artifacts related to the murder, had already been previously published.
The now unveiled documents had remained secret by a decision of Donald Trump in his first mandate. The president has changed criteria and has now decided to make public these papers without hidden or crossed outs. However, the files are not expected to change the essentials of the historical story. Part of the documents that are now published entirely had already been disseminated, but with some parts crossed out to preserve identities of agents and investigators. Its diffusion does not contribute much.
The quality of a good part of the documents leaves much to be desired. There are some manuscripts that are barely understood; Others have blurred or erased parts. It is not possible to perform digital searches with them. Some are messy. A classification or explanation of them is not offered or clarified which of them were already partially known. His analysis, therefore, is necessarily long and laborious. Several of the files refer to the investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald’s background outside the United States.
The national archives have launched a monographic website dedicated to all the archives related to Kennedy’s murder, although most of them are not yet digitized. The page is. That website will house documents and elements already published within the so -called documents of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. It will be the future place of dissemination of all the documents and elements that are published. To date, the national archives have digitized more than 700,000 pages of records of the collection, which consists of more than six million documents.
It is not clear how many of the now declassified are pending digitalization. On their website, the national archives indicate: “As of March 18, 2025, the records will be available for online consultation on this page or in person, in print or in analog media formats, in the national archives of College Park, Maryland.
The murder of Kennedy has generated conspiracy theories about who was responsible for killing the 35th president and if there were other involved in addition to the supposed material author of the facts, Lee Harvey Oswald, an old unbalanced sailor who identified himself as a Marxist and who came to live and marry in the Soviet Union.
Oswald shot and killed Kennedy when the presidential caravan passed by Dealy Plaza in Dallas. The owner of a Dallas nightclub, Jack Ruby, shot and killed Oswald two days later, when Oswald was about to be transferred to another jail.
The Warren Commission, formed to investigate the murders, concluded that Oswald acted only in the murder of Kennedy and that Ruby also acted only in Oswald’s murder. But conspiracy theories, including those that argue the participation of the CIA and the Mafia and the possibility of a second shooter, have persisted for decades.
The Law of Collection of Records of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, approved in 1992, demanded that all records related to the magnicide be made public in its entirety before October 26, 2017. However, it contemplated exceptions in the event that the president certified that keeping them secret was necessary to avoid serious damage that exceeds the public interest in the dissemination.
It was Trump himself, who was president in 2017, which prevented them from being publicly published, although he later appeared as a transparency defender. The thousands of documents that were not yet public were partially censored and some of them remained under secret in the officials of official secrets. “I have no choice but to accept certain conditions rather than cause irreversible damage to the security of the nation,” Trump said. His successor, Joe Biden, also issued subsequent certifications regarding those records that granted the additional time to review them.
Trump said Monday that
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