Donald Trump will release secret JFK files TOMORROW with 80,000 unredacted assassination pages

Donald Trump has announced that his administration will release the JFK files tomorrow afternoon, including 80,000 unredacted pages.

The US president said on Monday: "We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. You got a lot of reading. I don't believe we are are going to redact anything...it's going to be very interesting...approximately 80,000 pages."

Trump first ordered officials to make plans to declassify the documents as he took office back in January, saying it was in the "national interest" to deliver "transparency and truth" into Kennedy's shocking assassination.

An aide announced the president was signing the executive action for "the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr".

Trump said at the time: "A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades - and everything will be revealed."

"I said during the campaign I'd do it, and I'm a man of my word," Trump said on Monday.

President John F Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas in 1963 as he and wife Jackie were being driven in an open-top limousine to the Dallas Trade Mart, where he was scheduled to deliver a speech. Shots were fired from an open window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository and Lee Harvey Oswald was later arrested.

While the majority of the documents related to the JFK investigation have been made public since, thousands still remain redacted more than five decades on. Trump's order, signed on January 23, read: "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."

The president today told reporters while touring the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC: "While we're here, I thought it would be appropriate- we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files.

"So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I've instructed my people... lots of different people, [director of national intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow."

Asked if he has seen what's in the files, Trump said he has "heard about them" and added: "I'm not doing summaries, you'll write your own summary."

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