{"id":24392,"date":"2025-03-19T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24392"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:11:24","slug":"readers-all-have-same-response-after-reading-declassified-jfk-documents-said-to-tell-the-truth-released-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24392","title":{"rendered":"Readers all have same response after reading declassified JFK documents said to ‘tell the truth’ released by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A host of people who were looking forward to pouring over the latest declassified documents discussing JFK’s assassination have been left a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n

President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0announced another 80,000 pages of material\u00a0would be made public<\/a>\u00a0on Monday (17 March), but according to readers, it’s been a bit of an anticlimax.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old leader promised that the information would be ‘very interesting’, while claiming that no details in the docs would be redacted.<\/p>\n

During his appearance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in\u00a0Washington DC<\/a>, Trump said: “We have a tremendous amount of paper. You got a lot of reading. I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re going to redact anything.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019ve been waiting for that for decades. And I said during the campaign I\u2019d release them, and I\u2019m a man of my word…so tomorrow you have the JFK files.”<\/p>\n

Tomorrow has been and gone, and true to his word, the declassified documents were\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by the National Archives last night (18 March).<\/p>\n

Trump vowed to make information pertaining to three of the most high-profile assassinations on US soil – President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King – public\u00a0back in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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People hoped the documents would reveal some new information about JFK’s murder (Bettmann\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He said it was an important step towards ‘restoring transparency<\/a>\u00a0and accountability to\u00a0government<\/a>‘, telling Americans that ‘everything will be revealed’.<\/p>\n

The murder of JFK has long been the subject of\u00a0conspiracy theories<\/a>, as not everyone is completely convinced by the official version of events.<\/p>\n

The 35th President of the US was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald on 22 November, 1963, as he drove through Dallas, Texas, in an open-topped\u00a0car<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oswald was then shot dead two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby – and people were hoping to find out some new information from the docs about the\u00a0historic<\/a>\u00a0event.<\/p>\n

But those who have had a flick through the 80,000 pages in the latest batch of JFK files reckon they were a bit of a letdown, difficult to read, and faded.<\/p>\n

Despite Trump pretty much guaranteeing that the archives would be a real page-turner, people have all been sharing the same complaint online.<\/p>\n

Taking to\u00a0social media<\/a>, one person said: “I\u2019m quickly going through the JFK files to see if we would get everything unredacted like promised. We have not.”<\/p>\n

Another added: “Most of these documents were marked ‘safe’ for declassification YEARS ago. There is nothing here. Where are the ‘exempt’ and ‘excluded’ JFK files?”<\/p>\n

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Despite Trump’s big promises, readers have been left disappointed (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

A third wrote: “Today, the final 80,000 JFK assassination documents were supposed to be declassified. Instead, we got a pathetic trickle – just over 1,000 files, most of them already known, heavily redacted, or long marked for release.<\/p>\n

“A smokescreen of transparency, carefully curated to reveal nothing of substance.”<\/p>\n

While a fourth commented: “I was told repeatedly these were going to be unredacted\u2026”<\/p>\n

Others were a bit more complimentary, including the likes of Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who led the task force to declassify the JFK files.<\/p>\n

She shared a post on\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0explaining she was excited to read a ‘CIA IG report from whistleblowers alleging that the CIA hid information from Congress’ about the assassination.<\/p>\n

Luna claimed that the information was concealed because ‘it implicated them’, adding: “We were given this as a tip and there is actually a document we are currently tracking down.”<\/p>\n

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, also praised the President for declassifying the files in a social media post.<\/p>\n

She wrote: “President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency. Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions.<\/p>\n

“Promises made, promises kept.”<\/p>\n

People were quick to flood her replies with examples of the multiple redactions which are in the JFK files.<\/p>\n

The documents include hand-written notes, typewritten reports, and photocopies – but historians don’t expect a host of new revelations to emerge.<\/p>\n

But 80,000 pages is a lot to comb through, so the jury is still out on whether the document dump was worth it at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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