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April 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM

Oliver Stone calls on Congress to reopen JFK assassination investigation

Filmmaker Oliver Stone on Tuesday called for Congress to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
April 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Filmmaker Oliver Stone (C) arrives to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Task Force on the declassification of federal secrets on the JFK files, following the recent release of files by the Trump administration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2025.
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM

Oliver Stone calls on Congress to reopen JFK assassination investigation

Filmmaker Oliver Stone on Tuesday called for Congress to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Filmmaker Oliver Stone on Tuesday called for Congress to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1 month ago

What’s in the long redacted JFK assassination files?

The trove of files now released is feeding American’s enduring fascination with John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
1 month ago
VIDEO:  What’s in the long redacted JFK assassination files?
1 month ago

Released JFK files reveal Social Security numbers of former staffers

The Social Security numbers of at least two former congressional staffers were revealed by this week's release of declassified JFK records.
1 month ago
Documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are displayed after they were released following an order from President Donald Trump, in Washington D.C., March 18, 2025.
1 month ago

Government releases latest batch of JFK assassination documents

Unredacted documents reveal CIA sources and methods, while the Justice Department intends to release new information about the surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
1 month ago
VIDEO: Government releases latest batch of JFK assassination documents
1 month ago

What the JFK assassination files reveal about the CIA

Larry Sabato, founder of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says more was learned about the CIA rather than the assassination of JFK in the released files.
1 month ago
VIDEO: What the JFK assassination files reveal about the CIA
1 month ago

JFK assassination files released

The highly-anticipated document drop did not reveal any bombshells but did provide new details about the CIA and how it operated around the time of former President John F. Kennedy's death.
1 month ago
VIDEO: JFK assassination files released
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JFK files key takeaways: What we learned and didn't

The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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FILE - This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas.
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Government releases thousands of declassified pages related to JFK assassination

The National Archives has released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
1 month ago
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, Nov. 22, 1963.
1 month ago

JFK assassination files released

More than 60,000 pages of previously redacted documents connected to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were released by the National Archives.
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VIDEO:  JFK assassination files released
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Government releases thousands of declassified pages related to JFK assassination

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 directing the release of the remaining records, saying it was in the "public interest" to do so.
1 month ago
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 directing the release of the remaining records, saying it was in the "public interest" to do so.
1 month ago

JFK files released: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on fact-finding fascination

ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos spoke with ABC News contributor Mary Jordan about the decision to declassify more files regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Will release of JFK assassination files contain any new information?

Presidential historian Mark Updegrove discusses the what information historians will be looking for in the planned release of the JFK assassination files by the Trump administration.
1 month ago
VIDEO: Will release of JFK assassination files contain any new information?
1 month ago

DOJ's National Security Division pulls all-nighter to prep release of JFK files

The DOJ has been in a scramble trying to meet President Trump's promise Monday to release declassified information from the JFK assassination investigation today.
1 month ago
President John F. Kennedy, shown during his news conference at the State Department.
1 month ago

JFK assassination files to be released

The Trump administration is set to release 80,000 pages of unredacted files on the JFK assassination.
1 month ago
The Trump administration is set to release 80,000 pages of unredacted files on the JFK assassination.
1 month ago

Trump says JFK files will be released on Tuesday

President Donald Trump told reporters that over 80,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of JFK will be released on Tuesday.
1 month ago
President Donald Trump told reporters that over 80,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of JFK will be released on Tuesday.
2 months ago

FBI finds 2,400 new JFK assassination records

Harvard University professor Fredrik Logevall says he hopes to learn valuable information about what led up to the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
2 months ago
FBI finds 2,400 new JFK assassination records
2 months ago

Classified JFK assassination files could be released soon. Here's why

JFK assassination files are one step closer to possible public release per a President Trump executive order to declassify them.
2 months ago
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963.
3 months ago

JFK assassination experts hopeful, but skeptical about timing of secret files release

One said the intelligence community will keep resisting despite Trump's order.
3 months ago
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963.
3 months ago

RFK Jr. react after Trump signs order to declassify JFK, MLK assassination files

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
3 months ago
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 23, 2025.
3 months ago

Trump signs order to declassify JFK, MLK and RFK assassination files

Trump released a trove of documents in 2017 related to the 1963 killing of John F. Kennedy but left some of it redacted based on recommendations from the CIA and FBI.
3 months ago
Trump has long vowed to make the information public. He released a trove of documents in 2017 related to the 1963 killing of John F. Kennedy but left some of it redacted based on recommendations from the CIA and FBI.
1 year ago

60-year anniversary of the assassination of JFK

Today in Dallas, Parkland Hospital opened the John F. Kennedy Park for Hope, Healing and Heroes.
1 year ago
VIDEO: 60-year anniversary of the assassination of JFK
2 years ago

Trove of JFK assassination records released by National Archives

According to the National Archives, over 97% of records in the collection are publicly available.
2 years ago
President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963.
2 years ago

‘My travels with Mrs. Kennedy’

In his latest book, former Secret Service agent Clint Hill recounts his experience working on first lady Jackie Kennedy’s detail, an assignment he calls “the best.” ABC News’ Andrew Dymburt has more.
2 years ago
VIDEO:  ‘My travels with Mrs. Kennedy’
3 years ago

National Archives releases nearly 1,500 documents related to JFK assassination

The National Archives has released nearly 1,500 documents related to the JFK assassination nearly 60 years later.
3 years ago
President John F. Kennedy, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie Connally ride together in a convertible limousine in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, shortly before the President and Governor were shot.
3 years ago

US releases files on JFK assassination

The National Archives released nearly 1,500 documents related to the government’s investigation of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
3 years ago
VIDEO: US releases files on JFK assassination
5 years ago

Remembering Jean Kennedy

Following the death of JFK’s last living sibling, ABC News' Will Ganss looks back on her personal life.
5 years ago
VIDEO: Remembering Jean Kennedy
5 years ago

Why JFK decided to embrace civil rights as a 'moral issue' in 1963: OPINION

Fifty-seven years ago today, John F. Kennedy made one of his most important orations, an appeal to all Americans to accept civil rights as "a moral issue."
5 years ago
President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on TV and radio on the issue of civil rights, June 11, 1963.
6 years ago

JFK Jr. as president: A friend imagines the future 20 years after his death

RoseMarie Terenzio was Kennedy's chief of staff at "George" magazine.
6 years ago
John F. Kennedy Jr. talks on the phone at the desk of his chief of staff RoseMarie Terenzio.
6 years ago

John F. Kennedy Jr.'s chief of staff reflects on his death 20 years later

On the 20th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that claimed Kennedy's life, RoseMarie Terenzio reflects on his legacy and more, live on "GMA."
6 years ago
VIDEO: John F. Kennedy Jr.'s former assistant reflects on his death 20 years later
6 years ago

JFK Jr.'s death impacts America: 'We lost that dream, we lost that legacy'

Those who knew the son of America's most famous family reflect on what we lost in his death and what could have been.
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Keeping John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wedding 'a total secret'

JFK Jr.'s assistant and ABC News consultant RoseMarie Terenzio says keeping the plans for his marriage to Carolyn Bessette hush-hush "was the most nerve-wracking three months of my entire life!"
6 years ago
VIDEO: Keeping John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wedding 'a total secret'
6 years ago

JFK's children at the White House: John Jr. was 'the apple of his eye'

John Jr. and Caroline would frolic in the Oval Office and get treats like gum from their father, the president, when their mom, First Lady Jackie Kennedy, was out of town.
6 years ago
VIDEO: JFK's children at the White House: John Jr. was 'the apple of his eye'
7 years ago

FBI agents storm plane at JFK after hijacking 'false alarm'

A radio error signaled that the plane had been hijacked, authorities said.
7 years ago
FBI agents descended upon a packed JetBlue flight in New York on Tuesday.
7 years ago

A review of John F. Kennedy's final hours in Texas before he was assassinated.
7 years ago
7 years ago

Bob Clarke reports that President Kennedy and Gov. John Connally were shot in Dallas.
7 years ago
President John Kennedy rides in a motorcade from the Dallas airport into the city with his wife Jacqueline and Texas Governor Johhn Connally, Nov. 22, 1963.
7 years ago

The documents released by the National Archives include memos about Communist sympathizers and Hoover's frustration over Oswald's death.
7 years ago
VIDEO:  JFK assassination investigation files released
7 years ago

JFK assassination files reveal Hoover's frustration over Oswald's death, Soviet reaction

The documents include previously classified information.
7 years ago
In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas. Riding with Kennedy are First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left.
7 years ago

The White House guarded certain documents after an appeal from the CIA and FBI.
7 years ago
VIDEO: Trump withholds some pages of the recently released secret JFK files
7 years ago

Some records were withheld due to national security concerns, according to a memo from President Trump, while more than 2,800 previously classified or redacted records were released by the National Archives.
7 years ago
VIDEO: Trump blocks release of some JFK assassination files
7 years ago

Trump releases some documents related to Kennedy's assassination, but not all, as he deems some information as a threat to national security.
7 years ago
VIDEO: Confusion still surrounds assassination of President John F. Kennedy
7 years ago

A White House official said later that the release of the files could be held up if national security or law enforcement agencies believe that is necessary.
7 years ago
VIDEO: Trump says he will allow release of JFK assassination files
7 years ago

What are the secret John F. Kennedy assassination files set for release?

President Trump indicated today he's allow release of the classified files.
7 years ago
Alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald during a press conference shortly after his arrest, November 22, 1963 in Dallas.
7 years ago

Trump says he'll allow release of JFK assassination files, with caveat

President Trump says he will allow the release of long-classified documents regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
7 years ago
President John F. Kennedy listens while Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg speaks outside the White House in Washington.
8 years ago

Nostalgia for the Camelot era was in full effect as the Kennedy family celebrated the life of the 35th president.
8 years ago
VIDEO: Remembering JFK on his 100th birthday
9 years ago

Reports of Shots Fired at JFK Prove False

Police now confirm no shots fired, terminals to resume operations.
9 years ago
JFK International Airport in New York City.