Just recently, even more mysterious and captivating files on the murder of John F. Kennedy have been released. There are said to be thousands more that were uncovered.
The day was eventful for the couple, flying a short 30-minute flight from Fort Worth to Dallas, Texas, for a presidential campaign. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, were being driven in a motorcade (a vehicle used to escort a prominent person) while crowds shouted in excitement. Everything seemed normal until shots fired from a building and shot Kennedy in the neck and then in his head. The motorcade drove quickly to Parkland Memorial Hospital, but to no avail. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1 p.m., resulting in his unfortunate yet successful assassination.
President Kennedy was a man who took the title of the 35th president of the United States in 1961, when he was 44 years old. Kennedy originally had no plans to become the president. He originally “planned to pursue an academic or journalistic career,” according to britannica.com. In 1945, his older brother, Joe Kennedy, who their father assumed would be the first Kennedy to run for office, was killed in the war. After the unfortunate passing, the Kennedy family turned their hopes to John to run for office. He was later shot and killed Nov. 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m., in Dallas, Texas, when he was 46 years old.
Kennedy’s killer was named Lee Harvey Oswald. He was a 24-year-old man with a wife, Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, and their two kids, June Lee Oswald and Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald. In his criminal history, he had one attempted murder and two homicides. After buying a .38 revolver in January, he attempted to murder Edwin A. Walker on April 10, 1963. Unfortunately, he succeeded in killing Kennedy and Patrolman J.D. Tippit. Less than an hour after Oswald shot Kennedy, he killed Tippit at 1:15 p.m.. Just two days later, Oswald was shot by a distraught nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, while being transported to the county jail, on Nov. 24, 1963. He died two hours later at Parkland Hospital.
The assassination not only affected the Kennedy family but families all across the country. The death of the former president remains a memorable moment in U.S. history, not only for the act itself but for the sudden heartbreak millions of people faced that day.
Many of the files on the assassination have been released to the public, and the FBI has found about 2,400 more. There’s no clear description of what the files are, but conspiracies have formed about whether there’s intense information inside them. Such as if they’re going to contain world-changing information or if there was a second assassin, which was already proven false by the FBI.
Stated by whitehouse.gov, “Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.” According to The Executive Order, the victims’ families deserve the truth more than 50-years after the assassinations. The files were released on March 18, 2025.
