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| Donald Trump has announced he intends to allow the release of the "long blocked and classified" files on the John F Kennedy (JFK) assassination. | |
| The declaration was made on Twitter, with the President saying: "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened." | |
| The announcement, made against the advice of the National Security Council, has prompted claims the President is seeking to distract from a series of negative stories. | |
| Security officials reportedly fear some documents compiled in the 1990s could contain information on more recent intelligence operations. | |
| The Kennedy assassination files are due to be released by the National Archives on October 26 but it was reported Mr Trump would not allow them to be made public. | |
| The 1963 killing of Kennedy shocked the world and has long been shrouded in controversy and conspiracy theories. | |
| Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead by gunman Jack Ruby before he could be tried. | |
| The release of the documents will be welcomed by some experts. | |
| "The American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years," Professor Larry Sabato, a political scientists and author of a book about Kennedy, told The Associated Press last month. | |
| "It's long past the time to be forthcoming with this information," he added. | |
| During last year's election campaign, Mr Trump used a conspiracy theory about the assassination to attack his rival, Ted Cruz. | |
| He suggested Mr Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was connected to Oswald. | |
| “I don't know his father. I met him once. I think he's a lovely guy,” Mr Trump told a rally in Cleveland. | |
| “All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.” |