The FBI has discovered thousands of previously undisclosed files related to the JFK assassination following an executive order from President Donald Trump to make them public.
Reflecting on Trump’s initial weeks in office, one could simply summarize them as being dominated by executive actions.
During his tenure as the 47th President, Trump signed numerous executive orders. These included reversing the TikTok ban, modifying immigration laws, and affirming there are ‘only two genders’, all shortly after his return to the Oval Office.
Within days of taking office, Trump approved an executive order to declassify files pertaining to the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
According to Mail Online, part of the newly issued order stated: “More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.”
Axios initially reported that 2,400 records associated with the infamous assassination had been released after a review.
The FBI communicated to Fox News: “In 2020, the FBI opened the Central Records Complex and began a multi-year effort to first ship and then electronically inventory and store closed case files from FBI field offices across the country. The resulting, more comprehensive records inventory, coupled with the technologic advances in automating the FBI’s record keeping processes, allows us to more quickly search and locate records.”
They further explained: “The FBI conducted a new records search pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order issued on January 23, 2025, regarding the declassification of the assassination files of JFK, RFK, and MLK. The search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file.”
“The FBI has made the appropriate notifications of the newly discovered documents and is working to transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the ongoing declassification process.”
Prior to this latest development, a JFK assassination expert highlighted the potential ’embarrassing’ secrets that could emerge once Trump released the files.
In an interview with Fox News, Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, remarked: “I think that we could actually find the files that are very embarrassing to the CIA and one of the reasons they’ve held on to these for so long.”