Published: 5:33am, 18 Mar 2025Updated: 5:51am, 18 Mar 2025
US President Donald Trump, who has ordered the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of US president John F. Kennedy, said on Monday that his administration will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to the former president on Tuesday.
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“People have been waiting for decades for this,” Trump told reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Centre in Washington.
“It’s going to be very interesting.”
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in early February it had found thousands of new documents related to the assassination of Kennedy.
Trump signed an order during his first week in office related to the release and promised to release also documents concerning the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.
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Trump made the announcement during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, where he took a tour and chaired a meeting of its board of directors.
It was his first time at the marquee arts institution since he began remaking it at the start of his second term in office. Trump fired the previous board of the Kennedy Centre, writing on social media that they “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture”.