A famed doctor who investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy lifted the veil of President Donald Trump’s mandate to declassify the assassination files.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he would release around 80,000 unredacted files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday.
Trump made the announcement while touring the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
“While we’re here, I thought it would be appropriate, we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people… lots of different people, [director of national intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow,” he said.
“You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact,’” the president said.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who was a part of the 1963 JFK assassination probe, spoke with Fox News Digital about the Trump administration’s effort to release long classified files.
“Expectations are that the 14,000 documents that will be released by President Trump may shed a light on the various mistakes or disinformation that have circulated since. The various conspiracy theories and other criticisms of the investigation continued and arose after our report and have been amplified by the fact that the entire report was never released by the investigation conducted by Congress,” Baden said.
Trump in January signed an executive order aimed at declassifying government documents on the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
“A lot of people were waiting for this… for years, for decades,” Trump said in signing the release of the documents. “Everything will be revealed.”
On Nov. 22, 1963, America lost a popular young president as he was riding in his presidential motorcade in Dallas and waving to adoring bystanders from his open-roofed vehicle.
The assassination sent shock waves that are still felt today.
Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald less than an hour later. But Oswald was also killed on live TV just two days later as police were transferring him to a county jail.
Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, acted alone, the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known as the Warren Commission, concluded. The commission ruled that Oswald also acted alone.
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