Trump releases thousands of files on JFK assassination
This follows an executive order made by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office directing the release of unredacted government files about Kennedy's killing.
Kennedy was shot during a visit to Dallas, Texas in November 1963, but conspiracy theories still swirl around his death.
More than 1,100 files containing more than 31,000 pages were posted on the National Archives website on Tuesday evening.
Trump estimates that more than 80,000 new pages will be unsealed.
In the past decades, authorities have already released ten of thousands of documents.
Several JFK experts said they had teams already combing through the new material, and it would take time to assess the flood of files.
"We have a lot of work to do for a long time to come, and people just have to accept that," Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of "The Kennedy Half-Century," told the AP news agency.
Kennedy's murder has been attributed to a sole gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
But polls show many Americans still believe his death was a result of a conspiracy.
Edited by: Wesley Dockery
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