Final US Files About Kennedy Assassination To Be Published In October

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The final files pertaining to the 1963 assassination of then-US President John F. Kennedy will be released on October 26, but forces within US intelligence may intend to appeal to US President Donald Trump to keep the files from ever seeing the light of day.

The 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act required that Washington make public all documents pertaining to the Kennedy assassination within 25 years — that is to say, by October 2017. Since the law was passed, over 4 million pages of files have been released to the public.

But the final batch of files may remain classified by the National Archives. In August, Politico reported that "Congressional and other government officials" privately told them that the CIA and FBI would appeal to Trump to keep some of the files sealed for good. Neither agency has confirmed or denied the allegation.

Larry Sabato, a Kennedy scholar and the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, also told AP that "the American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years."...

Perhaps the biggest bombshell to come from releases due to the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act was the 2013 release of a CIA report that claimed that the agency had undertaken what they called a "benign cover-up" to prevent the 1963 Warren Commission from straying from "what the Agency believed was the 'best truth' — that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy."