2,400 classified documents related to Kennedy assassination discovered

The FBI has discovered about 2,400 files related to the 1963 assassination of US President Kennedy.

The classified documents are part of a 14,000-page collection; the FBI identified the documents during a review of the documents in response to US President Donald Trump’s executive order on January 23 (February 4) to release the full records of the Kennedy assassination.

According to Axios, the records were never sent to a task force responsible for reviewing and disclosing them.

For more than six decades, speculation about the Kennedy assassination has persisted, largely due to the reluctance of US governments to make all relevant documents public.

The discovery of the additional documents has also been notified to the White House, and further examination could provide new insight into one of the most closely watched events in American history. The release of the documents could also prompt changes in how government records are reviewed and disclosed.

“This is a huge discovery and shows that the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, an assassination expert who also serves as vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the largest online archive of Kennedy assassination records.

Experts say the remaining records are unlikely to provide definitive evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or was part of a larger plot. However, they may shed light on why key documents were hidden for so long.