There was frustration, anger and disappointment on Tuesday evening after the Trump administration had dropped the latest secret files on the top Murder of President John F. Kennedy.
The long -awaited documents were published on the website of the National Archives.
It came about 24 hours after President Donald Trump Announced a stroke of 80,000 pages of material would be released.
But many of the old documents were faded, poorly scanned and impossible to read.
Others were notes in handwriting that were completely illegible or include crossing words and scribbles.
And more was ultimately strongly edited despite promises of the Trump administration that the files would not be.
'I quickly go through the JFK files to see if we would not get everything close as promised. We didn't, “posted a researcher.
“I was repeatedly told that they would not be reduced …” spent another frustrated X user.
'Most of these documents were 'safely' marked for declassification years ago. There is nothing here. Where are the “exempt” and “excluded” JFK files? “wrote another.
John Greenewald, Jr., who founded the Black Vault, an online repository of declassified government documents, responded to the tranche that was released with 'OOF'.
He noted that the PDFs are not searchable, there are no bulk downloads and no spreadsheet index of records such as earlier releases.
Documents released on March 18 from the John F Kennedy files included scanned notes, typed reports and handwritten letters
Viewers who search the documents on the website of the National Archives website vrustation about documents that are unreadable due to faded type and poor scanning
“This landfill is deeply more impenetrable than all previous more annotated,” historian David Garrow told the New York Times of the document release.
He suggested that it would take two days to open all documents and that it would take a while to find out if there was something new.
Garrow noted that the more than 1,100 separate PDFs have released annotation, including agency of origin or file numbers from previous releases.
Historians also noticed that many and perhaps even most of the documents have been released in one form or another.
One document was an excerpt from the Leftwing Political Magazine Ramparts that was published from 1962 to 1975. That document had been publicly available for years.
President John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Moments before the president was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963 when his car passed through Dealey Plaza
Despite the slow slog through the documents while Americans searched to find something New Maga World, the release cheered.
“The file that I am particularly interested is a CIA IG report from whistleblowers who claim that the CIA has hidden information from the Congress Ref JFK Assassination, as it concerns them (shortly after the murder),” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-fl.) Who led the Task Force to declassification of JFK Assassination Records.
“We gave this as a tip and there is actually a document that we are currently tracing,” she added.
The GOP Congress member wrote about X 'promises, promises that' held 'despite the documents including editors.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also claimed on X that Trump 'a new era of maximum transparency' and that the files were released without editors'.
Some X users responded to her message with screen handles of edited documents from the release.
In the run -up to the release, Trump said it would be 'interesting' and the White House said that Americans would be 'shocked' by revelations.
“People have been waiting for decades,” Trump said Monday. “We have a huge amount of paper. You have read a lot. '
“I don't believe we'll edit something. I just said not to edit. You can't edit. But we are going to release the JFK files, “he added.
The Mok Shots of Lee Harvey Oswald of the Dallas Police Department after his arrest on the JFK murder. Oswald claimed that he was a 'patsy'.
The rear documents contain handwritten notes and typed reports.
Historians who responded to the document dump indicated that they had not expected great revelations that change the circumstances of the murder, but the release could give additional details.
Some documents contain information about the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the murder, including his contacts with Cuban and Soviet in -lights.
One document noted that Oswald was considered a 'bad shot'.
The release also contained a letter from a Russian in which he claimed that in August 1963 he warned American officials that Oswald was preparing to kill the president.
The huge document release had spent jfk -speuzen and conspiracy theorists on the National Archives website for new juicy pieces of information on Tuesday evening.
The new JFK Assassination files may have been recorded by the home video by bystander Oliver Nix, according to expert Jefferson Morley.
The release of files about the murder of 1963 JFK is part of a larger GOP promise to make public government secrets-as is known about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, UFOS, Origins of Covid-19 and the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
US President Donald Trump has a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, US, January 23, 2025.
Boxes with documents and evidence with regard to the murder of John F. Kennedy were presented at a press conference in Dallas, Texas on 18 February 2008
Trump was to release the JFK files during his first term of office, but thousands remained under seal.
During his 2024 campaign, he promised to make them public as part of his general efforts to increase the transparency of the government.
He signed an executive order in January to declassify the remaining files.
