Trump releases JFK assassination files

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump released material related to the 1963 assassination of former president John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, seeking to honor his campaign promise to provide more transparency about the shock event in Texas.

An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded into the National Archives website in the evening with a total of more than 80,000 expected to be published after the Justice Department lawyers spent hours scouring them.

The release is nonetheless likely to intrigue people who have long been fascinated with a dramatic period in history, with the assassination and with Kennedy himself.