JFK files: Trump to release 80,000 pages with no redaction on Tuesday, says content is ‘very interesting’
US President Donald Trump has announced that the JFK files, which have long been kept secret from the American people, will be released on Tuesday.
Speaking from the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, Mr Trump said: “People have been waiting for decades for this.”
“We are tomorrow (Tuesday) announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” he said.
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Mr Trump warned there will be “a lot of reading to do” as approximately 80,000 pages will be released.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper,” he said.
“You’ve got a lot of reading.
“I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact. You can’t redact’.”
Mr Trump said Americans have “been waiting for decades” for the files.
“I said during the campaign I’d do it and I’m a man of my word.
The president said he had not personally read the files but had been told about the contents, adding it was “very interesting”.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.
In January, Mr Trump said the “American people deserve transparency and truth”, again promising the documents would be released.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events,” Mr Trump said.
“Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.
“It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.”
