With the October 26 deadline looming large for the public release of classified FBI, CIA and other files related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination, as mandated by Congress, President Trump is on the verge of making the documents public “subject to the receipt of further information.”
In typical Trump fashion, the president tweeted a statement that indicates he may yet choose to withhold certain documents if agencies are able to provide justifications related to national security or law enforcement.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” he tweeted, while a White House official told reporters on Saturday:
“The President believes that these documents should be made available in the interests of full transparency unless agencies provide a compelling and clear national security or law enforcement justification otherwise.”
There have been several conspiracy theories swirling around JFK’s assassination, including Trump’s own accusation about Sen. Ted Cruz’s father being associated with Lee Harvey Oswald, which he has neither apologized for nor retracted since.
Incidentally, Trump’s own political advisor, Roger Stone, is a conspiracy theorist himself, and has written a book titled The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (with Mike Colapietro contributing) that has been lambasted as being “totally full of all kinds of crap” by Hugh Aynsworth, who reviewed the book for The Washington Times and originally covered the assassination for the Dallas Morning News.
While most historians who have analyzed the events surrounding the JFK assassination are of the opinion that the public release of documents will not lead to any “bombshell new conclusions,” some feel that it could damage US-Mexico relations due to certain aspects of Oswald’s mysterious trip to Mexico City just weeks before JFK was assassinated.
At least one non-conspiracy-theory historian, a presidential researcher at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, Ken Hughes, believes that the documents could shed light on possible US involvement in assassination attempts on Fidel Castro and the coup in South Vietnam during the reign of Ngô Đình Diệm in 1963.
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