JFK Files Full of Redactions, Exemptions; Archivists Pledge to Recover More Original Files

Files still include deletions, redactions, and missing documents in the National Archives, but archivists are working to recover the originals.

President John F. Kennedy (C), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (R) and Texas Gov. John Connally (L), and his wife ride in the presidential motorcade moments before Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. Reuters

WASHINGTON—Some newly released files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are missing key pieces of information, and others are completely absent from the records, The Epoch Times discovered while reviewing thousands of documents in person at the National Archives.

Approximately 80,000 documents were released on March 19 by President Donald Trump pursuant to an executive order he signed in January. Redactions and exemptions, however, leave the disclosure incomplete.