The Trump administration released 80,000 files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Tuesday evening — triggering a feeding frenzy among amateur historians, conspiracy buffs and experts who have studied the events of Nov. 22, 1963, since that fateful day in Dallas.
It was not immediately clear whether any new information about the death of the 35th president was covered in the files — most of which appeared to relate to the initial investigation of the assassination by the Warren Commission in 1964.
That commission, helmed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy with a high-powered rifle from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, overlooking Dealey Plaza, as the president’s motorcade passed below him.
The commission’s official conclusion has been roundly disputed and disbelieved, with polls consistently showing a clear majority of Americans feel Kennedy was murdered as the result of a conspiracy — with theories floated implicating the Mafia, the CIA and disgruntled Cuban exiles, along others.
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