INVESTIGATINGGovernmentThe Trump administration declassified half a million documents covering the JFK assassination, RFK assassination, MLK assassination, and 9/11. The largest single declassification push in American history.
“The Trump administration declassified half a million documents covering the JFK assassination, RFK assassination, MLK assassination, and 9/11. The largest single declassification push in American history.”
The Trump administration declassified 500,000 government documents covering four of the most consequential events in American history: the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. Whatever the government was hiding for decades is now theoretically public.
Five hundred thousand documents. Not pages — documents. Each one potentially containing multiple pages, appendices, and attachments. The sheer volume means that even if every journalist in America started reading today, it would take years to process the full scope of what was hidden.
The JFK assassination: 60+ years of withheld documents about who killed the president. The RFK assassination: questions about whether Sirhan Sirhan acted alone. The MLK assassination: decades of FBI surveillance files and potential government involvement. 9/11: classified information about what the government knew and when it knew it.
Declassification doesn't happen by accident. Someone decided that 500,000 documents could be released. The question is: were they released because there's nothing damning in them, or because the passage of time has made the truth politically manageable?
500,000 documents is too many for any single person or organization to process. The information is technically public, but effectively hidden behind volume. The real work — reading, analyzing, connecting the dots across half a million records — is just beginning.
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