Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017, but the release has been held up by national security concerns.
When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public attention and raised intrigue.
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and defector to the Soviet Union, fired three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, striking President Kennedy as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Millions of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas have already been made public, but President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of still-classified files.
An executive order by Donald Trump demands the nation's security organizations create plans to release confidential records regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
"This order is a good first step, but it has loopholes in it," warns author Jefferson Morley, whose website, jfkfacts.org, says it seeks to "abolish the official secrecy" that surrounds the 1963 assassination.
President Trump announced he's releasing files related to the JFK assassination, the subject of conspiracies for decades.
Trump's order is aimed at releasing documents related to the assassinations of the former president, presidential candidate and civil rights leader.
More than 3,000 people filled the auditorium at Pocatello High School as the Democratic senator from Massachusetts stood at the podium to address the crowd. It was Sept. 6, 1960. The Gate City was one of many stops for John F.
A famed doctor who investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy discussed what the upcoming release of the assassination files may reveal.
Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.
President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.