Washington [US], February 12: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has just discovered thousands of previously unidentified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The FBI announced on February 11 that it had found a new set of documents after President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the release of all records on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy , according to Reuters.
The search resulted in about 2,400 new records that were inventoried and digitized but had not previously been considered related to the assassination.
The FBI said it has notified relevant agencies and is in the process of transferring the files to the National Archives and Records Administration for declassification.
Last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent a recommendation to President Trump about which classified documents about the assassination should be released.
After six decades, the mysteries surrounding President Kennedy's assassination still attract great interest.
Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The only person identified as the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald , who had visited the Soviet embassy in Mexico six weeks before the assassination. Government agencies in later years have reaffirmed that conclusion, but polls have shown that many Americans believe the president's death was the result of a larger conspiracy.
The files may reveal more details about the case, but historians say they are unlikely to help bolster conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination.
Journalist Gerald Posner, author of a book concluding that Oswald acted alone, said his biggest question about the 2,400 new files is what they are and why it took the FBI 62 years to find them.
In an executive order signed in January, President Trump also requested the declassification and release of records related to the assassinations of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, the late President's brother. Both were assassinated in 1968, and Robert Kennedy was running for president at the time. President Trump has nominated Robert Kennedy's son to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper
