FBI discovers new JFK files weeks after Trump order

• The FBI uncovered 14,000 previously unaccounted for documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Trump’s office reportedly learned about the new documents on Friday.
• The discovery occurred during a review following President Trump’s executive order to declassify information about the deaths of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
• The new documents are currently under close guard, and there’s ongoing speculation about potential conspiracies involving JFK’s assassination due to the delay in releasing these records.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found thousands of previously unaccounted for documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

President Donald Trump’s administration told Axios that the files containing 14,000 documents were discovered in the review process following Trump’s executive order to declassify information relating to the deaths of JFK, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump’s office learned about the new documents on Friday, Feb. 7, Axios reported. Sources told the news outlet that the contents are still closely guarded.

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JFK’s Nov. 22, 1963, death at the hands of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is one of history’s most scrutinized events. Oswald had taken to Marxism and, for a time, defected to the Soviet Union before the infamous shooting. Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby killed Oswald before he could be tried.

Conspiracy theories about whether Oswald acted alone have persisted decades after his death despite the Warren Commission concluding as much. 

Trump had ordered agencies to begin disclosing information about the JFK assassination during his first term. The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 required records related to the assassination to be released in 2017. The law contained exceptions for information that would cause “identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations” or information that would cause harm outweighing the public interest. 

At the urging of CIA officials, Trump delayed the release of records during his first term. Former President Joe Biden also ordered the process to resume, but the effort didn’t produce any major revelations during his term.

The federal government’s reluctance to release what’s speculated to be tens of thousands of classified documents has fueled speculation that Oswald was part of a broader conspiracy. Among those skeptics is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump nominated for secretary of Health and Human Services.

Trump promised Kennedy that he would finally declassify information regarding the death of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle.