The president of the United States, Donald Trump, appointed himself president of Kennedy Center, the emblematic center of the capital dedicated to music and performing arts. This Monday he visited him for the first time. Apart from being awarded more weight in the artistic selection, he took advantage of his visit to make an announcement related to the name of the Cultural Center: this Tuesday he will disseminate about 80,000 pages of documents about the murder of President John F. Kennedy that until now were classified as confidential. With this, it rectifies the decision he made in his first term.
In one of the decrees of his first days as 47th President of the United States, Trump gave the order to declassify all the documents of the assassination of November 22, 1963, amending the flat to the decision he made himself as 45th President. In the same decree, he also ordered to disseminate the documents related to the murder of Senator Robert F, Kennedy, in June 1968 in Los Angeles (California) and that of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, in Memphis (Tennessee) that same year.
The rule approved by Trump did not set a specific term for the dissemination of the documents, but Trump pointed out at the Kennedy Center that will be this Tuesday. “Since we are here, I thought it would be appropriate: tomorrow we will announce and deliver all the Kennedy files. People have been waiting for this, and I have instructed my people, many different people, [a la directora de Inteligencia Nacional] Tulsi Gabbard, to be published tomorrow, ”the president told journalists on Monday.
“It’s a great ad. They have been waiting for that for decades, ”he added, stressing that he had promised to disseminate those documents. He said that his content was “interesting”, but that he was not going to make any summary. “We have a huge amount of paper. You have a lot to read, ”Trump said, ensuring that there will be no crossed or censored fragments of the files. “I said: ‘You just don’t censor. You can’t censor, ”he summarized.
The murder of John F. Kennedy continues to generate theories of conspiracy and thesis faced despite more than six decades. Part of the official documents related to the attack that ended the life of the Democratic President in Dallas have been kept secret all this time, feeding the speculation about their content.
The Law of Collection of Records of the murder of President John F. Kennedy, approved in 1992, demanded that all records related to the magnicide be made public in its entirety before October 26, 2017. However, it contemplated exceptions in the event that the president certified that keeping them secret was necessary to avoid serious damage that exceeds the public interest in the dissemination.
Trump held them
It was Trump himself, who was president in 2017, which prevented them from being publicly published, although he later appeared as a transparency defender. The thousands of documents that were not yet public were partially censored and some of them remained under secret in the officials of official secrets. He stayed like this without disseminating the most interesting of those files. “I have no choice but to accept certain conditions rather than cause irreversible damage to the security of the nation,” Trump said. His successor, Joe Biden, also issued subsequent certifications regarding those records that granted the additional time to review them.
John F. Kennedy’s assassination was officially attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald, an old unbalanced sailor who came to live and marry in the Soviet Union. But the dimension of crime and the almost immediate death of his alleged author at the hands of the mafia Jack Ruby paid all kinds of conspiracy theories. Many have pointed out that the CIA and the FBI knew much more of Oswald and the murder than what they officially recognized.
“When I return to the White House,” Trump said in campaign, “I will declassify and open all the documents related to the murder of JFK. 60 years have passed, it’s time for the American people to know the truth! ” He recalled that promise this Monday at the Kennedy Center: “I said during the campaign I would, and I am a man of word,” he said.
This Tuesday will clear whether these documents contain information that alters the historical story or only details and identities that have been preserved for security reasons.
