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President Trump authorized the release of thousands of pages of secret documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 2017 – but bowed to pressure from intelligence agencies to withhold reams of additional papers and information experts believe hold the key to the mysteries that still shroud the shooting.
He’s now whipped up his conspiracy theorist-supporting base by promising to put out thousands of files linked to the killing of the ex-US president after his presidential campaign was endorsed by JFK’s nephew – which Knewz.com can reveal could be packed with answers for investigators.
And an expert has declared CIA officials helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate the 46-year-old when asked to predict the secrets of still-classified documents.
Trump vowed to share the secret files at an Arizona rally where JFK’s nephew Robert F Kennedy Jr solidified his defection from the Democratic party and endorsed the former president.
For years the official narrative of what happened on November 22, 1963, in Dallas has been probed – especially the Warren Commission’s finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
But more than 3,000 documents relating to the assassination still contain redactions and experts have said the concealed information will add up to a “treasure trove” of information for conspiracists convinced Oswald was set up to take the fall for Kennedy’s murder and didn’t act alone.
Leading JFK scholar Jefferson Morley is one of the most outspoken supporters of the theory Oswald was a government agent, and has now said he believes Kennedy’s opponents in the CIA might have been working with Oswald.
He said about the papers Trump has vowed to release uncensored: “Is there a smoking gun in there? You know, this is not about a smoking gun.
“This is about the law that says all of the government’s JFK records should be made public by October 2017.”
“We’re seven years past that blown deadline.”
Morley added the documents that have been released so far show some CIA staff have never believed Oswald acted alone.
Trump has also pledged to set up a commission on assassination attempts that would make probing the Kennedy shooting one of its priorities.
He declared they would be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Even though he previously promised to put out unredacted Kennedy papers, he announced in April 2018 that the public face waiting several more years to see them due to national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs risks.
It was said at the time the dangers were “of such gravity” they outweighed the “public interest in immediate disclosure”.
Trump said about the 19,000 records that were released by the National Archives on Kennedy: “I actually did do it. I released a lot, as you know, but when it came to the whole thing, I was hit by some people that work for me, who are great people that you would respect. They asked me not to do it.”
Despite his latest promise to unveil all the secret Kennedy files, critics have blasted Trump for not following through in 2017 – and said they doubt he will do it this time around.
Expert Gerald Posner, who wrote the Kennedy assassination book Case Closed, blasted: “Trump had an opportunity to do it, you said you were going to do it, and you didn’t do it.”
But he admitted: “Now, with the RFK Jr. endorsement, maybe that’s a quid pro quo, and maybe this time he’ll actually do it.”