US President Donald Trump announced that he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on Tuesday.

“We’re going to be releasing the JFK files, and that would be tomorrow,” Trump told reporters at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where he attended a board meeting, according to Xinhua news agency.

“You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, just don’t. But we’re going to be releasing the JFK files,” Trump said.

“People have been waiting for decades for this,” he added.

When asked if there would be a summary of the 80,000 pages of files, Trump replied, “No.”

JFK, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, but numerous conspiracy theories about the circumstances of Oswald’s dramatic death two days after the assassination remain prevalent even today.

In 1992, Congress mandated that all documents related to the assassination be made available to the public within 25 years, by October 26, 2017.

During his first term as president starting in January 2017, Trump accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies but ordered the continued re-evaluation of those redactions.

Joe Biden, who succeeded Trump, issued certifications in 2021, 2022, and 2023, allowing agencies additional time to review the documents and withhold certain information from public disclosure.

Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said on June 30, 2023, that 99% of the records associated with JFK’s assassination were available to the public through the National Archives and Records Administration.

On January 23, Trump signed an executive order to declassify any remaining files from the assassinations of former President JFK, his brother Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).