05/19/2024

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. Kennedy 
  • 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 announced 
  • 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 pandemic 

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