13,000 Documents of JFK Assassination Released by US Government
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VIVA – The United States (US) government released a new set of documents on December 15, 2022, related to the assassination of former President John F Kennedy (JFK). The US National Archives uploaded 13.173 documents containing newly released information related to legislation passed by Congress in 1992.
As launched from the NyTimes site, the documents included records relating to Oswald’s trip to Mexico City several weeks before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963; Oswald’s trip to Finland in 1959, the year he defected to the Soviet Union; and images of his Cuban visa application. Some of the documents including one about Operation Mongoose, a covert government campaign to rid Cuba of Fidel Castro included redactions.
John F Kennedy Sesaat Sebelum Ditembak di Dallas Texas
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Many of the documents had been released previously but now have fewer redactions or none at all, researchers said. Many were scrambling to find out what new information had been revealed.
With the release, more than 97 percent of the documents in the JFK Assassination Records Collection are now available. President of the United States, Joe Biden said in a memo Thursday that all information in the documents regarding the assassination should be disclosed unless there are very compelling reasons not to.
"The profound national tragedy of President Kennedy's assassination continues to resonate in American history and in the memories of so many Americans who lived that terrible day," President Biden wrote in the memo.
As known John F Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his motorcade through Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963, at the age of 46.
