U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will release around 80,000 pages of documents on Tuesday about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Speaking at the Kennedy Center on Monday, Trump said the files would provide “a lot of reading” on the 1963 killing of the 35th U.S. president in Dallas, Texas. The assassination has been the subject of various conspiracy theories for more than 60 years.

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“I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact’,” Trump told reporters. “But we are going to be releasing the JFK files.”

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Asked if he had seen what was in the files, Trump said he was aware of their contents.

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“It’s going to be very interesting,” he said.

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Trump’s remarks follow a January executive order calling for the release of all remaining records on the JFK assassination, as well as files related to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

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Under the order, Trump instructed the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to present a plan within 15 days for the “full and complete release” of files on the JFK assassination.

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Last month, the FBI announced that it had found about 2,400 additional files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy while conducting searches to meet a government order.

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JFK’s assassination has fascinated Americans for decades, with many questioning the official explanation. A 2023 Gallup poll found that 65% of Americans do not believe the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president. Among those surveyed, 20% suspected Oswald conspired with the U.S. government, while 16% believed he worked with the CIA.

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During his first term, Donald Trump pledged to release all remaining documents on JFK’s assassination. However, after requests from the CIA and FBI, his administration only made about 2,800 records public, delaying the release of others. Later, under President Joe Biden, roughly 17,000 more documents were declassified, leaving fewer than 4,700 still partially or fully withheld.

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According to the National Archives, over 99% of the nearly 320,000 documents reviewed under the 1992 JFK Records Act have now been made public.

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The law mandated the disclosure of all remaining files by October 26, 2017, unless the president determined their release would cause “identifiable harm” to national defence, intelligence operations, law enforcement or foreign relations of such gravity that it “outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”

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