President Donald Trump’s efforts to unseal long-held government secrets are already exposing damning new information.
Trump seeks to finally end the government’s secrecy surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
The Republican lawmaker tasked with uncovering the truth has shared a shocking claim.
Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), the head of Trump’s new task force on government secrets, has uncovered new information regarding the shooters pm the day JFK was killed.
Luna has finally confirmed what many had long suspected – that more than one gunman was involved in the horrific murder.
“I believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to,” she said.
Although decades have gone by since the assassination, the federal government has long been reluctant to share all of the records it has.
The lack of transparency has fueled speculation of a cover-up.
In order to bring clarity to this pivotal event, Trump signed an executive order to declassify all of the remaining files.
He also ordered a full declassification of the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within days of Trump’s command, the FBI made the stunning discovery of 2,400 additional, previously unidentified files on JFK’s murder.
The availability of new information has led to anticipation that one of the greatest mysteries in American history could finally be solved.
Decades after the assassination, most Americans remain doubtful that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Some of the most common theories point to the involvement of the CIA, the mafia, or Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Kennedy was shot in the head while passing through downtown Dallas, Texas in his motorcade on November 22, 1963.
A bystander unwittingly captured the shocking event on a home video camera.
After a ten-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that 24-year-old Oswald shot Kennedy twice from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the president passed by through Dealey Plaza.
Oswald, a communist sympathizer who spent time living in the Soviet Union, denied killing JFK.
He claimed he was a scapegoat.
Two days after the assassination, Oswald was shot dead on live TV by Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
One of the most heavily debated questions concerns the number of shots that struck Kennedy.
Many have rejected the Warren Commission’s conclusions about the bullet that exited Kennedy’s throat to suggest multiple shooters were involved.
The shot was labeled the “magic bullet” because of its improbable flight path from Oswald’s position.
According to Luna, Trump’s task force will hold its first hearing in March.
She said witnesses could include people who were in the operating room as Kennedy died.
“In previous investigations, they didn’t have access to the information that we are going to have access to, and so that’s a big deal, especially if you’re looking at what truly happened with JFK,” Luna said.
