What are JFK files and why has Donald Trump promised to release them?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday promised to release thousands of classified documents linked to the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. Speaking at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, Trump said that he would release “all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of JFK” if he were elected president in November.

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Trump announcement after RFK Jr's endorsement?

The development came shortly after Trump received the endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate who ended his US presidential campaign on Friday.??

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., popularly known as RFK Jr., is the nephew of John F. Kennedy, aka JFK, the 35th President of the US.??

Also read:?Who is Robert F Kennedy Jr, the independent candidate who ended his US presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump

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Assassination of JFK

JFK, who was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963, was only the fourth US President to be killed while in office.??

The other three were Abraham Lincoln (April 15, 1865), James Garfield (July 2, 1881), and William McKinley (September 14, 1901).??

Though a former U.S. Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested soon after the murder, the outcome of the investigation into the assassination of JFK is not something that many Americans have been willing to believe even now.??

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Conspiracy theories about JFK assassination?

This has also resulted in the emergence of several popular conspiracy theories, blaming everyone from the CIA to the Deep State, NWO, the Mafia, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, then-Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, the Russian KGB, and more for JFK's murder.??

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What Trump said in the past about JFK files?

Over the decades, there have been growing calls to declassify the JFK files. In the past, Trump had also said that he would declassify JFK files if he was re-elected as President.??

“When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been nearly 60 years, time for the American people to know the TRUTH!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in July 2023.??

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Last month, Trump had claimed that he wanted to release the JFK files but was pressured by the CIA to stop some information from being released.

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