President Trump ordered the release of thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. WSJ’s Joel Schectman details the key takeaways from the material. Photo: Reuters;Carlos Barria/Reuters

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The Trump administration on Tuesday released more than 30,000 pages of previously classified or censored documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, providing insight into some of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most sensitive operations over decades. The documents are digitized paper documents going back to the 1960s, with faded typewritten text and handwritten notes. 

The Warren Commission in 1964 found that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald and that Oswald acted alone. In the years since, a raft of alternate theories have bubbled up, fueled in part by the CIA’s own secrecy in the investigation. 

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