President Donald Trump and his administration has made good on his promise to release the John F. Kennedy assassination files. Late Tuesday evening, 80,000 pages of previously classified JFK assassination files were released.
Trump signed an executive order in January directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to present him with a plan on releasing the files within 15 days. Trump additionally asked for Bondi and Gabbard to present a plan within 45 days to release the assassination files of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports: “Trump unexpectedly announced Monday that the files would be released the following day, unredacted. They were released Tuesday around 6 p.m., some appearing to be at least partially redacted. However, some redacted files that had previously been redacted now appear to be unsealed.”
“We are announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” Trump said. “So people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve reached out to my people.”
“We have a tremendous amount of paper and a lot of reading,” Trump said. “I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said ‘just don’t redact it, you can’t redact it.’”
President Trump on JFK Files: “We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files…I don’t believe we are are going to redact anything…it’s going to be very interesting…approximately 80,000 pages.” pic.twitter.com/0NW4QdLSzL
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 17, 2025
So Why is Some redacted?