Kennedy Assassination Documents: 1,100 Files Reveal Gaps in the “Conspiracy”

20th March 2025

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Kennedy Assassination Documents: 1,100 Files Reveal Gaps in the "Conspiracy"

A new batch of documents about the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, awaited for decades, has been made public. Could this unravel the mystery?

The documents released Tuesday evening consist of 1,123 files, according to the National Archives, including typewritten reports and handwritten notes. Most of the documents are under 10 pages long.

Before their release, President Donald Trump had stated that there would be no redactions. However, an early review of the documents after their release found that some information appears to have been withheld, according to U.S. reports.

Who Killed Kennedy?

The documents refer to various conspiracy theories, including that Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s assassin, left the Soviet Union in 1962 with the intention of killing the president.

However, other documents downplay Oswald’s connection to the Soviet Union.

One document dated November 1991 cites an American professor, E. B. Smith, who claimed to have spoken in Moscow with a Soviet intelligence official about Oswald. The official had reviewed five large files about the assassin to determine if he was an agent of Soviet intelligence. The American professor concluded that “the Soviet intelligence official was confident that Oswald was never an agent under Moscow’s control.”

Doubts and Anticipation

Kennedy’s murder was attributed to a lone gunman, Oswald. This conclusion was confirmed by the Justice Department and other federal agencies in the decades that followed.

However, polling over the years shows that many Americans still believe Kennedy’s assassination was the result of a conspiracy.

Experts are skeptical that these new documents will change the basic facts of the case: that Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a window of the Texas School Book Depository while the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

According to The New York Times, the documents have yet to reveal major discoveries in this divisive case from the 1960s. The newspaper states, “No major new details have been found immediately, but researchers say it will take time to go through all the files” due to their large number and the time required to carefully examine them.