US Secrets: Joe Biden allowed thousands of documents on John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination to be declassified

The president of the United States, Joe Bidenordered this Thursday to declassify thousands of documents about the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963, a decision delayed by the covid-19 pandemic.

By order of the current president, the US National Archives were released 12,879 documentsas reported, but theThe White House has prevented the publication of a few thousand more on the grounds that it could endanger national security.

In total, according to reports from the National Archives, he was released 97% of recordswhich add up to approx five million pagesas reported by the AFP news agency.

The National Archives explained that 4,400 documents are still classified, as the law allows the postponement of the publication of information that could damage military interestsintelligence operations or international relations.

“The continued temporary postponement of the public release of such information is necessary to protect us from identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operationsa, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations,” President Biden explained in a statement, regarding the decision to continue to withhold a “limited” number of documents.

JFK and conspiracy theories

Kennedy was 46 years old and serving his first term as the 35th president of the United States when he was assassinated November 22, 1963 after receiving multiple gunshot wounds while riding in a car belonging to his delegation on an official visit to the state of Texas.

The only suspect arrested by the authorities was Lee Harvey Oswaldaccused of having ties to communism, which two days later, when he went to testify for those facts, he was killed by Jack Ruby, owner of a nightclub in the city of Dallas. An episode which, after more than 59 years, it has never been clarified.

The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the assassination. However, his own assassination and the ten years he spent in the Soviet Union have generated extensive and controversial Assassination conspiracy theories.

Although much information about the Kennedy assassination has already been published, and there is abundant literature and even films fictionalizing the event, thousands of documents that should have come to light on October 26, 2017, still remain classified, according to a document approved by Congress in 1992 during the term of Democrat Bill Clinton (1993-2001).

However, as the date approaches, the Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021), who then occupied the White House, signed an ordinance that postponed publication of all reports.

Bidenwho took office on 20 January 2021, had requested it another postponement justifying himself as the pandemic has prevented the National Archives staff from viewing all the documents correctly.

The Democratic president also asked the National Archives to review that information and recommend to the White House which parts should remain private. In December 2021, the body released 1,500 documents, although it did not comment on the rest.

With information from agencies.

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