Decades of secrecy surrounding JFK’s assassination could soon come to an end.
Saturday, President Trump hinted that would be the case with a tweet stating he would be allowing the blocked and classified JFK files to be opened.
Out of a 500,000 page investigation into the assassination, 3,000 pages have never been made public because of a law passed in 1992.
“It should not have taken this long. This is going to be 54 years,” said Farris Rookstool III, a historian, former FBI analyst, and the custodian of record for the entire JFK assassination investigation.
Rookstool believes keeping the records secret for so long have fueled conspiracies about whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole shooter, but is sure the to-be-release record will not reveal any new conclusions.
He says the to-be-released record will not reveal any bombshell new conclusions.
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“It’s going to be very underwhelming to historians and conspiracy theory minds in that it’s not going to establish that there were more than one person involved in the assassination,” he said.
In addition, Rookstool also believes the records may provide some insight into Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks before the assassination.
These records are among the most recent reports filed in the investigation.
The National Archives could release the files by Thursday, Oct 26, when the law that blocked these records expires.
