President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will allow thousands of top-secret documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to be released.
Trump said via Twitter that the “long blocked and classified JFK files” will be opened after more than 50 years.
Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 21, 2017
The documents, which could reveal new details about the assassination, were scheduled by law to be unsealed and made public on October 26.
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There are still more than 3,000 documents from the investigation that remain classified and locked up in the National Archives.
It is unknown what exactly is in these documents, though thousands of documents have already been released over the years.
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