The United States, US, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, says it has discovered about 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
FBI said the new records search followed an executive order from President Donald Trump.
Upon assuming office, Trump signed an executive order that led to the declassification of files linked JF Kennedy’s assassination, his brother Sen. Robert, and civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr.
However, a statement from the FBI said it performed a new search of Kennedy’s assassination records following Trump’s January 23 executive order.
“The search resulted in approximately 2,400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file,” FBI said.
The FBI said it can quickly comb through and find records as a result of the “more comprehensive” inventory and “technologic advances in automating” its record-keeping processes.
In 1992, US Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which required all assassination-related material be kept in a single collection within the National Archives and be publicly released.
In 2023, the administration of former US president Joe Biden said the National Archives had concluded its review of the classified JFK assassination documents, with 99 percent of the records having been publicly released.
But, during Trump’s campaign in 2024, he vowed to unseal all the documents related to the JFK assassination.
Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, while riding in an open convertible limousine through downtown Dallas.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged but was killed before he could stand trial.