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March 18, 2025: Trump’s presidency, call with Putin, JFK files release [1]
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Date: 2025-03-18 12:04:21.901000+00:00
President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Jim Altgens/AP/File
President Donald Trump said yesterday “people have been waiting for decades” to see the 80,000 records related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that he plans to release today.
But one man who’s already seen many of the records says not to expect any bombshells — at least based on the thousands of documents he’s reviewed, some of which still haven’t been made public.
Tom Samulok was a deputy director of the Assassination Records Review Board, a government panel formed in the 1990s to study records related to the assassination. He and a team of dozens re-examined troves of documents for public release between 1994 and 1998.
From what he reviewed, there isn’t anything to change the current conclusion of Kennedy’s assassination: that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was responsible for his death.
“The collection of records that we reviewed, the vast majority of which were released — some were kept classified in whole or in part — if that’s what we’re talking about, then there is no smoking gun,” he told CNN in a phone interview.
“If there had been anything that cut to the core of the assassination, the review board would have released it in the mid-90s. So there is a sense of what the records are,” he went on.
Samulok acknowledges he hasn’t seen all of the records that could potentially be released on Tuesday.
Last month, the FBI announced it had located thousands of new documents related to the assassination that had not been included in previous reviews or releases.
There could also be other records at additional agencies that also haven’t been released, Samulok said, that would comprise a new bucket of documents previously unseen by his commission.
And he said there could still be points of interest in the remaining records that would help fill in gaps of existing knowledge, including information from the CIA related to Oswald’s movements ahead of the November 22, 1963, assassination.
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