Kennedy's murder: What do recently published documents say?

More than 2,000 recently published documents concerning the investigation into President John F. Kennedy is famous not only for what they contain but also for what is left out, it transmits Periscope.

As many experts expected, President Donald Trump's administration's decision on publishing documents does not answer all the fuel questions about one of the historic American twists of Kennedy's murder in Dallas in 1963, reports the BBC.

But in the last contingent, there are really documents, now largely unread or completely unreadable, the original material is attached instead of dark words or empty space.

A U.S. government investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a slider and former American farmers who in a moment defected to the Soviet Union back then, was acting alone when he shot Kennedy's motorcade from a nearby building.

However, more than 60 years later, the case still raises many questions and raises rampant conspiracy theories, and this recent discovery is unlikely to change that.

More Information on Oswald but Not Shocking Discoveries

Some experts praised the decision to publish documents as a step towards transparency.

Hundreds of thousands of documents have been discovered in the past, but they have been partially edited.

Others were arrested, with officials citing national security concerns as reasons.

Many of the new documents have already been published before, but the fullest versions are now available.

Although experts are still examining them, so far no stories have appeared that would shock the public.

However, Jeffrey Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and blog editor JFK Facts, calls this the most exciting <x0 reports on Kennedy files since the 1990s”

Several very important documents have been discovered “, he says.

These documents further show how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) kept Oswald under close scrutiny, says Morley, whose expansion has only become evident in recent years.

“He was a subject of deep interest to CIA” long before the murder, he said.

Philip Shannon, who wrote a book on murder in 2013, told the Associated Press (AP) that documents published earlier described Oswald's trip to Mexico City in September 1963, several months before the assassination.

The CIA was following him at the time, he said, according to the AP.

There is reason to believe that he spoke up about Kennedy's murder in Mexico City and that people heard him say it. ”

In a memo issued earlier in April 1975, The CIA tried to downplay its degree of knowledge of Oswald's trip to Mexico City, the AP reported.

The CIA reportedly recorded three phone conversations between Oswald and the guards of the Soviet Embassy, but Oswald identified himself only to one.

Intelligence Collection Methods Discovered

A series of documents shed light on Kennedy's relationship with the CIA prior to his death and intelligence collection techniques, providing a mirror of Cold War operations.

A new memo, unreaded, reveals a fuller version of the memo written by Kennedy's adviser Arthur Schlestinger.

Critical for the CIA and its role in shaping foreign policy, this memo shows the massive presence of agency at American embassies, even in allied countries like France.

In it, Schlesinger warns Kennedy of the agency's influence on American foreign policy.

Although it is not directly related to the assassination, it details the troubled relationship between the president and intelligence services.

The CIA has traditionally rejected the publication of operational or budgetary information, says David Barrett, professor at Villanova University and expert on the CIA and presidential competencies.

The “is a very good thing the government has issued these documents, even though there may still be some edited pieces”, he said.

A document details the use of fluoroscopic image using X-rays to see inside an object.

This technique developed to detect hidden microphones that could be used to spy out CIA offices.

In another document, the CIA describes a system for dictating and identifying hidden public phone booths using ink that is only partially visible under ultraviolet light.

The memorandum is also remarkable because of a name on it, James McCord, who would later become famous as one of the people who entered the Watergate complex.

This breach sparked a scandal that eventually brought down President Richard Nixon.

Old Theorys Were Resurrected

Several known online writings stated that published documents revealed new details about old plots against Kennedy, even though some of these alleged findings were public for years.

These include several viral posts about Gary Underhill a World War II military intelligence agent.

Underhill allegedly claimed that a click of CIA agents was behind the assassination, a theory that was published openly in Ramparts, a left-wing magazine, since 1967.

Underhill's death in 1964 was named suicide, but the magazine also doubted it.

The seven-page memo pictures of Underhill became viral on March 18, 2025, but most of them are nothing new.

His story has long been discussed online and the CIA memorandum that mentions it was first published in 2017.

Only a few sentences in one page of the memorandum are newly edited in this recent discovery.

Most important, this theory is based on rumors published after the death of Underhill and contains no hard evidence.

However, this story is just one of a large number of unconfirmed theories that started to circulate after publishing these files.

Are files completely unread?

The 1992 Law requires that all documents related to the assassination be published within 25 years, but the law also contained exceptions to national security.

The initiative for greater transparency has led to the publication of more documents over time both Trump and former President Joseph Biden were still launching new set of documents by 2023.

Before this latest discovery, Trump said he had asked his staff to print anything “on them.

It seems that this is not entirely true. There are still some pieces edited in new documents.

However, experts generally agree that this latest version is a step forward in opening.

Morley, a JFK file reporter, said there are more documents in the National Archives that have not yet been published and are not yet known what happened to those held by the CIA and the FBI.

While there may be some new publications as well as some of the promised discoveries about the murders of Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and Martin Luther King Jr., questions about John F. Kennedy will almost certainly continue.

Every time there is an assassination, there will be debates and to some extent there will be conspiracy theories,” said Barrett, the historian in Villanova.

This will not change because of these or any other document. ”