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Although the White House withheld some documents due to national security concerns, a fresh cache of records pertaining to the killing of US president John F. Kennedy in November 1963 was made public on Thursday.
12,879 records in all, according to the National Archives, were made available in the most recent release.
It claimed that currently, 97 percent of the records maintained by the archives—a total of about five million pages—have been made available.
A “small” number of records would continue to be withheld at the president’s request, according to a memo from unnamed “agencies,” according to Joe Biden.
The Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have both made requests to suppress documents in the past.
According to Biden, the military defence, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of international relations are all at risk if the public dissemination of this information is not temporarily postponed.
The Warren Commission, which looked into the killing of the charismatic 46-year-old president, concluded that former Marine sharpshooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in carrying it out.
The 35th president of the United States was assassinated, but that formal judgement hasn’t done much to allay rumours that something more sinister was at play.
According to Kennedy academics, it is unlikely that the archives’ remaining documents will reveal any shocking information or dispel the widespread conspiracy theories surrounding the killing.
Oswald left for the Soviet Union in 1959 but came back to the country in 1962.
Two days after killing Kennedy, he was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being released from the local jail.
A sizable portion of the documents made public on Thursday dealt with Oswald, his overseas travel, and his relationships in the days, weeks, months, and years before to the Kennedy assassination.
The Cold War adversaries the Soviet Union or Cuba, the Mafia, and even Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, have been implicated in hundreds of books and films, including the 1991 Oliver Stone picture “JFK,” which helped to fuel the conspiracy business.
The materials were made public in accordance with a law passed by Congress on October 26, 1992, which demanded that the assassination records kept by the National Archives be made public in their whole and without redactions 25 years later.
While Donald Trump was president, the National Archives also released thousands of records relating to the Kennedy assassination, but he also withheld some due to national security concerns.
