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<br>There was frustration, fury and disappointment on Tuesday night after the Trump administration dropped the latest top secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<br><br>The much-anticipated documents were published on the website of the National Archives. <br><br>It came roughly 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced a trove of 80,000 pages of material would be released.<br><br>But many of the aged documents were faded, poorly scanned and impossible to read. <br><br>Others were notes in handwriting that was completely illegible or included crossed out words and scribbles. <br><br>And more ended up being highly redacted despite promises from the Trump administration that the files would not be. <br><br>'I'm quickly going through the JFK files to see if we would get everything unredacted like promised. We have not,' posted one researcher. <br><br>'I was told repeatedly these were going to be unredacted…' vented another frustrated X user. <br><br>'Most of these documents were marked "safe" for declassification YEARS ago. There is nothing here. Where are the "exempt" and "excluded" JFK files?' wrote another. <br><br>John Greenewald, Jr., who created The Black Vault which is an online repository of declassified government documents, responded to the tranche released with 'oof.'<br><br>He noted that the PDFs are not searchable, there are no bulk downloads and no spreadsheet index of records like previous releases.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Documents released on March 18 from the John F Kennedy files included scanned notes, typewritten reports and handwritten letters<br><br><br><br><br><br>Viewers scouring the documents releases on the National Archives website vented frustration about documents being illegible due to faded type and poor scanning<br><br>'This dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones,' historian David Garrow told the New York Times of the document release.<br><br>He suggested it would take two days even to open all the documents and that it would take a while to figure out if there was anything new. <br><br>Garrow noted that the more than 1,100 separate PDFs released lack any annotation including agency of origin or file numbers from previous releases.<br><br>Historians also noted that many and perhaps even most of the documents dropped will have been previously released in one form or another.<br><br>One document was an excerpt from the leftwing political magazine Ramparts which was published from 1962 to 1975. That document had been publicly available for years.<br><br>Your browser does not support iframes.<br><br><br><br><br>President John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy moments before the president was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963 as his car passed through Dealey Plaza<br><br><br><br>The file I am particularly interested is a CIA IG report from whistleblowers alleging that the CIA hid information from Congress ref [https://jetblacktransportation.com/manhattan-to-jfk-taxi-fare/ taxi ride jfk to manhattan] assassination as it implicated them (shortly after the assassination). We were given this as a tip and there is actually a document we are… website<br><br>— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) March 19, 2025<br><br><br><br>Despite the slow slog through the documents as Americans scoured to find anything new MAGA world cheered the release.<br><br> 'The file I am particularly interested is a CIA IG report from whistleblowers alleging that the CIA hid information from Congress ref [https://jetblacktransportation.com/manhattan-to-jfk-taxi-fare/ taxi ride jfk to manhattan] assassination as it implicated them (shortly after the assassination),' wrote Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fl.) who led the task force to declassification of JFK assassination records.<br><br>'We were given this as a tip and there is actually a document we are currently tracking down,' she added.<br><br>The GOP congresswoman wrote on X 'promises made, promises kept' despite the documents including redactions.<br><br>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also claimed on X that Trump was 'ushering in a new era of maximum transparency' and that the files were being released 'with no redactions.'<br><br>Some X users responded to her post with screen grabs of redacted documents from the release. <br><br>Leading up to its release, Trump said it would be 'interesting'  and the White House said Americans would be 'shocked' by revelations.<br><br>'People have been waiting for decades for this,' Trump said on Monday. 'We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading.'<br><br>'I don't believe we are going to redact anything. I said just don't redact. You can't redact. But we're going to be releasing the JFK files,' he added.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The Dallas Police Department mug shots of Lee Harvey Oswald following his arrest over the JFK assassination. Oswald claimed he was a 'patsy'.<br><br>Your browser does not support iframes.<br><br>The trove of documents include hand-written notes as well as typewritten reports. <br><br>Historians reacting to the document dump signaled they did not expect any major revelations that change the the circumstances of the assassination, but the release could provide additional details. <br><br>Some of the documents hold information on Lee Harvey Oswald's activities prior to the assassination including his contacts with Cuban and Soviet intelligence.<br><br>One document noted that Oswald was considered a 'poor shot.' <br><br>The release also contained a letter from a Russian in which he claimed he warned U.S. officials in August 1963 that Oswald was preparing to kill the president.<br><br>The massive document release had JFK sleuths and conspiracy theorists scouring the National Archives website Tuesday night for any new juicy morsels of information.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The new JFK assassination files could include the home video shot by bystander Oliver Nix, according to expert Jefferson Morley.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The release of files on the 1963 assassination of [https://jetblacktransportation.com/manhattan-to-jfk-taxi-fare/ taxi ride jfk to manhattan] are part of a bigger GOP promise to make public government secrets  - like what is known about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, UFOs, origins of COVID-19 and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy<br><br><br><br><br><br>U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Boxes of documents and evidence related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were presented at a news conference in Dallas, Texas on February 18, 2008<br><br>Trump was for releasing the JFK files during his first term in office but thousands remained under seal.<br><br>During his 2024 campaign he vowed to make them public as part of his overall effort to increase government transparency.<br><br>He signed an executive order in January to declassify the remaining files.<br><br><br>Donald TrumpPoliticsGraphics<br><br><br><br>Here's more on [https://jetblacktransportation.com/manhattan-to-jfk-taxi-fare/ JetBlack] check out our web-site.