Kennedy was shot by a sniper while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza on 22 November, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
He was famously in a convertible limousine with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie.
Shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository building and Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and taken into custody.
Two days before his trial, he was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
While some people reckon Trump’s batch of JFK files were a bit of a letdown, here’s what we do know from the archived material.
Trump releases JFK files
There were some explosive finds in the declassified JFK files (Bettmann/Contributor)
Amid the countless conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s death, Trump has made good on his promise after releasing 1,100 files of 31,000 pages on the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website.
Although the vast majority of the National Archives’ collection has previously been released.
There may have been a second shooter
The most shocking find is the evidence which supports the long-standing theory of there being a second shooter involved.
It’s thought that Oswald fired three shots in 8.6 seconds, however, ballistic reports and testimonies in the files claim that a shot may have come from an elevated area ahead of the president’s motorcade.
Oswald was shot two days before going on trial (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) said in 1979 that there was a ‘high probability’ of a second shooter based on acoustic evidence.
Theories have argued that the second shooter was located on the ‘grassy knoll’, which is the small, sloping hill in Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was assassinated.
CIA involvement
A memo from November 1963 which has now been declassified has revealed how a CIA officer expressed alarm over Oswald’s activities.
Oswald married a Russian lady in the Soviet Union, in 1961, and had also visited Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City weeks before the assassination.
Kennedy was shot by a sniper while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza on 22 November, 1963, in Dallas, Texas (Bettmann/Getty Images)
The gunman also happened to be a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
According to the files, it has been suggested that higher-ups dismissed the concerns.
Mafia involvement
Wiretaps transcripts show the mob discussing the need to ‘take care of Kennedy’.
This comes after Michael Franzese, a former mafia captain, has long suggested their involvement.
“If I had to take a lie detector and swear to it – what I heard my entire life from people in the know – there was definitely mob involvement,” he said on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
He claimed that Oswald’s killer Jack Ruby ‘was totally mobbed up’ and that he had ‘cops on his payroll’.
Trump’s promise to release other files
“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,” he said.
“And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.”
