Biden delays release of JFK assassination files until December 2022: Cites ‘significant impact’ of the COVID-19 pandemic
- The White House said Friday it would delay the release of long-classified documents related to the assassination of US President John F. KennedyÂ
- President Joe Biden cited the ‘significant impact’ of the COVID-19 pandemic as cause for the holdup
- Biden wrote in a statement that ‘an interim release’ of the remaining classified files ‘shall be withheld from full public disclosure’ until December 15
- A second batch of records will be released to the public in a ‘more comprehensive release in late 2022,’ the memo announcedÂ
- In 2018, Donald Trump released 19,000 secret files on the assassination, but withheld 14,000 records on national security grounds through October 26
- However, the White House said the national archivist needs more time for a review into that redaction, which was slowed by the pandemicÂ
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