Sixty-two years after the former American president John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, the federal investigation office said in a press release that he had discovered around 2,400 new files related His assassination.
As indicated for the first time by Axios, the recordings were apparently never subject to the board of directors Responsible for disclosing and examining the relevant documents.
On January 23, US President Donald Trump published an executive decree leading the release of additional documents concerning Jfk Assassination, in addition to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy.
In response to the decree, said the FBI, they carried out a new search for JFK recordings, which led to their new discovery.
“Research has resulted in approximately 2,400 newly inventoried and digitized recordings which were not previously recognized as related to the JFK assassination file,” the office said in a statement.
To date, there are no details on new recordings; We do not know if the discovery will shed light on or provide other evidence or theories on what happened to JFK.
On its own website, the office concluded during the years of survey JFK was killed by a lonely shooterLee Harvey Oswald.
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“After carrying out some 25,000 interviews and cut off tens of thousands of investigatives, the FBI found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone. The Warren commission, which spent almost a year carefully studying the assassination, accepted. »»
The FBI plans to submit documents to the National Archives and the administration of files in a “process of declassification in progress”.
Addressing journalists on January 23, Trump said: “Everything will be revealed.”
Trump had promised during his re -election campaign to make public the latest prizes of documents still classified surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, who has pulled people for decades. He made a similar commitment during his first mandate, but finally obeyed the CIA and FBI calls to keep certain documents selected.
Only a few thousand of the millions of government files linked to the assassination of President Kennedy have not yet been completely declassified. And although many of those who have studied what has been published so far say that the public should not anticipate overwhelming revelations, there is always an intense interest in the details related to the assassination and the events which ‘surround it.
Kennedy was fatally killed in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, when his procession passed in front of the Texas School Book Building Building, where Assassin Oswald, 24, had positioned himself from the perch of a shooter elite on the sixth floor. Two days after the death of Kennedy, the owner of the nightclub, Jack Ruby, shot Balle Oswald during a transfer of prison.
Documents published in recent years offer details on how intelligence services have worked at the time and include CIA cables and MEMOS discussing Oswald visits to Soviet and Cuban Embassies during a Travel to Mexico City a few weeks before the assassination. The former navy had previously defected in the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
There are still documents in the collection, but that researchers do not believe that Trump will be able to release. About 500 documents, including income declarations, were not subject to the 2017 disclosure requirement. And, according to the researchers, documents were also destroyed during the decades.
– With files from the Associated Press
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