Donald Trump’s release of the remaining JFK assassination files could contain 15 huge revelations, including a private letter Jackie Kennedy wrote to President Lyndon Johnson after her husband’s death and missing ‘conspiracy’ footage.
On the President’s orders, all remaining 80,000 pages of the secret JFK assassination files were publicly released on Tuesday evening.
Trump himself has described the massive trove as ‘interesting’ but the lengthy nature of the release means that, until it has all been properly digested, conspiracy theorists have been left on tenterhooks.
Missing footage
The new files could include a missing original home movie of the assassination taken by bystander Orville Nix on November 22, 1963, according to the JFK Facts newsletter by leading expert on the assassination Jefferson Morley.
Dallas maintenance worker Orville Nix sold the film which he shot from Dealey Plaza to the UPI news agency on December 6, 1963, with the understanding that the footage, delivered to the FBI five days earlier, would be returned to his family after 25 years. But the film, which was initially obtained by the Warren Commission and subpoenaed 15 years later by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, was never returned.
According to Nix’s granddaughter Gayle Jackson, the film shows the infamous grassy knoll from which many believe a second shooter may have operated, as well as Abraham Zapuder who shot his own 26 second 8mm footage of the assassination from across the street.
Officials at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza claim that Zapruder’s film has greater historical value because it shows the entirety of the shooting, as opposed to Nix’s and two others that capture only part of it, but many believe the missing footage could actually reveal more.
Jackie’s letters to LBJ
Five ‘very personal letters of Mrs. Kennedy’ to President Lyndon Johnson are believed to be among the soon-to-be released files. The first lady always maintained that she did not believe the official conclusion that her husband was targeted by a lone gunman. The letters, written in 1963, could offer the first real glimpse into Jackie Kennedy’s understanding of the assassination.
The new JFK assassination files could include the home video shot by bystander Oliver Nix, according to expert Jefferson Morley.
The documents could also in include five ‘very personal letters of Mrs. Kennedy’ to president Lyndon Johnson written in 1963
Miami’s CIA files
According to Morley, the new documents could include files on George Joannides, Then Chief of Covert Action at the CIA’s station in Miami, Joannides funded the Student Revolutionary Directorate, a group of Cuban exiles whose officers had contact with Oswald in the weeks before he shot the president.
Cuban assassin’s records
Several missing CIA files believed to be among the documents could offer new insight into how the agency operated in the weeks before Kennedy’s death.
The summary of CIA surveillance operations monitoring Oswald in Mexico City before the assassination could give insight into how the CIA spied on the killer for six weeks before he shot Kennedy dead.
Meanwhile the transcript of the testimony of Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton, who had Oswald on his radar for four years, could reveal whether foreign agents were used in this endeavor.
The missing CIA files of Cuban assassin Herminio Diaz Garcia and travel records of CIA assassination chief, William K. Harvey, could also prove vital to a fuller understanding of what happened.
New Orleans paramilitary agents
The list of top-secret CIA paramilitary agents operating in New Orleans when Oswald was there are thought to be part of the release, as well as the FBI file and tapes of New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello.
Moreover, the operational and travel records of CIA officers Emilio Rodriguez, Anthony Sforza, and David Atlee Phillips could also provide information on what the CIA knew about Oswald.
JFK’s Secretary’s CIA memo
A secret memo on a potential ‘CIA Reorganization,’ written by Kennedy’s speechwriter and adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr could be among the most explosive inclusion in the files.
The Dallas Police Department mug shots of Lee Harvey Oswald following his arrest over the JFK assassination. Oswald claimed he was a ‘patsy’.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025.
It was written shortly after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and around the time Kennedy declared his intention to ‘splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.’
Many have speculated that high-level CIA insiders either orchestrated JFK’s assassination or turned a blind eye to its planning in a bid to get rid of the president and protect the agency.
While some of the five-page memo has been released, one-and-a-half pages remain redacted.
‘The page is about why JFK was alienated from the CIA, that’s very important,’ Morley told DailyMail.com.
JFK Whistleblower Report
According to Morley, the files could also include the report by CIA Inspector General on the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which could provide insight into whether CIA officials showed an ‘intent to deceive’ Congress regarding the probe.
President Trump announced his plan to release the files during a two-hour visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C on Monday.
He had spoken about releasing the JFK files during his first term in office but thousands remained under seal. Then, in January, he signed an executive order to declassify the remaining documents.
US President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Minutes later the President was assassinated as his car passed through Dealey Plaza
Making his announcement at the beginning of the week Trump promised that the trove would come out ‘tomorrow afternoon.’
Asked if he had reviewed the documents, or would provide an executive summary, Trump added: ‘I’ve heard about them. It’s going to be very interesting.’
He said about 80,000 pages of material would come out.
According to the president, ‘It’s a lot of stuff, and you’ll make your own determination.’
