Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK which concludes that Oswald acted alone, said it’s possible that the newly discovered files are repeats of documents that are already in the National Archives’ collection or they could be documents the review board for the collection had previously said it didn’t want.
The FBI on Tuesday said it had discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former president John F Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with Donald Trump’s executive order last month to release thousands of files.
FBI says it has discovered nearly 2,500 new records related to JFK assassination The agency was transferring the records for declassification and did not say what information they contained.
Trump’s order last month directed the national intelligence director and attorney general to develop a plan to release classified records related to Kennedy’s assassination.
A spokesperson for the office of the director of national intelligence said that as required by the order, a release plan has been submitted, but offered no details about the plan or a timeline for when records may be made available to the public.
