On January 23, Donald Trump signed a decree which obliged the FBI to re-examine the archives for papers concerning the murders of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Service just reported the results.
"About 2.4 1000 recently inventoryd and digitized records have been found that were not previously identified as linked to JFK's execution case files", the FBI states in its Communication.
Currently the agency is working on transferring materials to the National Archives and Administration Act to be declassified and made available to researchers.
In 2017, during Trump's first term, the US government revealed over 2.8 1000 papers related to the assassination of the 35th U.S. President. The actions of the presidential administration are the consequence of a 1992 judicial judgement which ordered the declassified materials. However, about 300 files remained secret due to national safety and another sharpenings.
In 2023, president Joe Biden's administration announced that the National Archive had completed a review of the secret files concerning JFK's murder, and 99 percent of them were made public.
The FBI is going through the archives again.
As of 2020, the FBI began collecting paper files of closed cases from field offices throughout the United States to store them in the Central Records Complex in Virginia. The investigative office authorities have stated that thanks to more comprehensive inventory and technological advancement in automation of documentation management processes, it is now able to search and find the essential records more quickly.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963 while driving an open limo across downtown Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the assassination of the president, but died before the trial took place.
