US President Joe Biden gave the order this Thursday. declassify thousands of documents A decision on the 1963 murder of former President John F. Kennedy, postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Published on the website of the United States National Archives Administration More than 12,000 documents About the murder of the former Democratic president shortly after Biden ordered it with a memorandum.
In that text, Biden says, almost 60 years after Kennedy’s death, assassination “continues to reverberate in American history” and in memory of the many who lived through that terrible day”.
“It is essential that the United States Government provides guarantees. transparency “To disclose all information in the records of the murder, unless there are strong reasons,” he said.
Reports of the JFK assassination, according to a 1992 law It should go public 25 years later, in 2017.however, postponements were allowed if concerns were felt. National Security.
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) ordered disclosure. 2,800 unpublished documents in October 2017, despite the decision keep hundreds of them secret under this premise.
Biden is back in October 2021 defer declassification Examining the documents, considering that the Covid-19 outbreak will not allow the National Archive staff to examine the documents well.
Democrat president at the time assassinated November 22, 1963 inside Dallas Texas) in your hand Lee Harvey Oswald Who acted alone, according to the Warren commission’s official investigation.