However, this is not the first time the JFK files have been expected to be released. Congress previously passed the John F. KennedyAssassination Records Collection Act of 1992, mandating that ...
Trump signed an executive order that directs his Director of National Intelligence to put together a plan within 15 days for the full release of documents about the JFK assassination. ' ...
Author Gerald Posner, who wrote the 1993 book, "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK," is less pessimistic than Morley and Schnapf about the timing of the releases.