Dusting off JFK file

Trump vows to release classified documents into 1963 killing

IT IS the greatest conspiracy theory of all time – who shot John F. Kennedy?

Now Donald Trump has ordered the release of 3100 classified documents which could finally solve the question of who was behind the assassination of JFK in 1963.

Mr Trump tweeted at the weekend he planned to open up CIA and FBI files about the assassination, saying: “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing the long blocked and classified JFK files to be opened.”

The move, expected later this week, also includes more than 30,000 documents which were previously released with redactions.

The assassination has sparked many theories including the shooter Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, that there was another gunman on a “grassy knoll” in Dallas, and the killing was ordered by, variously, the mafia, Cuban president Fidel Castro, the CIA, the Russians, and even US VicePresident Lyndon Johnson.

Oswald, a former US Marine, shot the president from a sixth-floor window as his motorcade rounded Dealey Plaza.

The release of the files was prompted by Oliver Stone’s controversial Oscar-winning 1992 film JFK. Public outcry over the cover-up theories put forward in the movie led to the formation of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act in 1992, and it ordered that all classified documents had to be released by the US National Archives within 25 years.

It has been reported that both the CIA and FBI had begged Mr Trump to withhold certain documents security reasons.

The official probe into the killing, the Warren Commission, ruled that 24-year-old Oswald – who was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days later – acted alone.

Gerald Posner, author of the book Case Closed, which argues that Oswald acted alone, said: “There’s going to be no smoking gun there.” for