
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News/AP) –The long awaited classified files detailing the John F. Kennedy assassination are finally being released to the public.
In total, close to 80,000 files will be released to the public. Last night, on March 18th, the first 1,123 files were posted to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration website.
This action comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order back in January when he took office calling for the release of the information to the public.
When President Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, he said that “We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading.”
While many historians are preparing for the large amount of analyzing and reading they will have to do with the files, they aren’t expecting any ‘earth-shattering’ news. Historians are mainly interested in the minute details that will come out, along with knowing more about the events that took place over the days before, during and after the assassination. They also are wondering how many of the 80,000 files that have been released to the public in the past.
The assassination took place on Nov. 22, 1963 as police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald for firing the fatal shot. Oswald had been on the sixth floor of a nearby building during Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas. Only two days later Oswald was fatally shot during a prison transfer, before the police could learn more information.
Conspiracies have been floating around for decades now about whether or not Oswald worked alone in the assassination. With the release of the files, the public will now get to know the facts from inside the final days of Kennedy’s life and everything that took place afterwards in the investigation.