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(NewsNation) — The remaining classified files on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday evening on the National Archives website.
Here are the documents. It is unclear which documents are new and which ones have been released unredacted.
Around 63,000 pages were released Tuesday.
The long-awaited release has so far yielded little new information. Despite hopes that the files might contain groundbreaking details, early reviews suggest much of the material has been previously available in some form.
Despite Trump’s remarks about full transparency, some documents remain redacted.
Trump promised the release of those files, as well as files related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and files related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. All three cases have been the subject of conspiracy theories, and there has long been public pressure to release them.
The president said there are around 80,000 pages that will be released.
“We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve 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,” Trump said.
Trump, who announced the release as he spoke to reporters at the Kennedy Center, said he had not read the files but called them “very interesting.”
The majority of files regarding Kennedy’s assassination have already been declassified. The remaining files likely remained classified due to sensitive information, which could include the names of informants who may still be alive and potential safe houses or black sites that may still be in use.
Trump has already come under fire after an initial release of Epstein-related files turned out to consist largely of information that is already known to the public.
Those files were released only to a small group of conservative influencers, bypassing traditional media.
Republicans in Congress were among those expressing disappointment at how the Epstein files were released and pushing the administration for more transparency.