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More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released on an order from President Donald Trump, many of them without redactions that had confused historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories.
"We have a huge amount of pages, you have a lot to read," Trump said.
Before Tuesday, researchers had estimated that 3,000 to 3,500 files were still unreleased, in whole or in part. And just last month, the FBI said it had uncovered about 2,400 new pieces of information related to the assassination.
Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, an archive for files related to the assassination, said in a statement posted on the social platform X that the publication is "an encouraging start."
The National Archives said on its website that in accordance with the president's directive, the release will include "all records previously held secret."
But Morley said what was released Tuesday does not include two-thirds of the promised files, any of the recently declassified FBI files or 500 Internal Revenue Service records.
"However, this is the most positive news about the release of the JFK files since the 1990s," Morley said.
Interest in the details surrounding Kennedy's assassination has been intense over the decades, with countless conspiracy theories rife about multiple attackers and involvement by the Soviet Union and the mafia.
He was assassinated on November 22, 1963, during a visit to Dallas, when his motorcade was finishing its parade route downtown and shots were heard from the Texas School Book Depository building.
Police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been positioned from a sniper's position on the sixth floor. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald during a prison transfer.
A year after the assassination, the so-called Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate, concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But that did not extinguish a web of alternative theories that have flourished over the decades.
Oswald was a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning to his home in Texas.
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