On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump made public documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling his campaign promise to increase transparency about the tragic event in Texas. The first batch of electronic copies was posted on the National Archives website that evening, with over 80,000 additional files expected to be released after the Justice Department carefully reviews them.
These digital records, including PDFs of previously classified memos, offer insight into the tense atmosphere of the Cold War, especially following the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which nearly brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to nuclear war.
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