By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
More than 3,000 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are expected to be released by the federal government Thursday.
President Trump said he doesn’t plan to prevent the release of the documents, which include repots from the CIA and FBI.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump tweeted Saturday.
The disclosure is long overdue, said Boston University professor and presidential historian Tom Whalen.
“It might cause some embarrassments to the intelligence agencies because J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI, in previously released documents basically admitted the FBI screwed up on November 22. Lee Harvey Oswald shouldn’t have been a country mile of the presidential motorcade. They should have detained him but the intelligence agencies were not communicating to one another,” he told CBS.http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/10/22/jfk-documents-release-fbi-cia/
A 1992 law, known as the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, called for the release on the 25th anniversary of the law.
