REVEALED: 80,000 pages of files on JFK's assassination

Around 80,000 pages of files having to do with the assassination of President John F Kennedy have been released by the Trump administration as President Donald Trump said would be done on Monday.

When he announced the release on Monday, Trump said that those looking at the files will have "a lot of reading" to do as he visited the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He also added that he did not think anything in the files will be redacted. The files can be found at this webpage. There were 1,123 new entries for the files at the National Archives, with many entries having multiple pages.  

Along with the release of the files, the office for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a news release stating, “President Donald J. Trump promised maximum transparency and a commitment to rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies. Part of that promise was to fully release previously-classified records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” 

Although there have been theories behind who killed JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald is widely recognized as the killer of the 35th President of the United States. Oswald was a US Marine veteran at the time and assassinated Kennedy on November 22, 1963. 

One file from the release dated July 19, 1967, that spread online after it was released addressed CIA employee Gary Underhill, and said he was found dead after the employee claimed that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of JFK.  

“The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening he showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. He was very agitated,” the document read. “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country. Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it suicide.” 

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) was appointed by Trump to lead a task force on declassifying a trove of different files on the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr assassination as well files related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, and she has said that she believes there were "two shooters" in the JFK assassination.

In February she told reporters, "Based on what I've seen, the initial hearing held in Congress was faulty ... I believe there were two shooters." Luna added at the time that she did not believe the "single bullet theory."

Over the weekend, Trump said in an interview that the administration was moving quickly to release the files and that the documents on the JFK assassination were the most requested out of all the different files that Luna's task force had been assigned to.

On Monday, Trump stated, "I said during the campaign I'd do it and I'm a man of my word so tomorrow you have the JFK files."