US President Donald Trump says more of the classified files relating to the assassination of his predecessor John F Kennedy in 1963 will be released on Tuesday local time.
Trump, after he was sworn into office, ordered the release of the remaining classified files related to murder.
While at the Kennedy Centre, Trump told reporters his administration will release 80,000 files on Tuesday, though it's not clear how many of those are among the millions of documents that have already been made public.
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That means the files are likely to be released tonight or tomorrow morning Australia time.
"We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading," Trump said to reporters.
He also said he doesn't believe anything will be redacted from the files.
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"I said, 'Just don't redact. You can't redact,'" he said.
A previous release of classified files drew criticism from some quarters, including the online influencers and far-right bloggers Trump has curated in place of a traditional White House press corps.
Critics said the documents had all mostly been in the public domain for years, if not officially released by the US government.
Inside the JFK files
In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection of over five million records was required to be opened by 2017, barring any exemptions designated by the president.
Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, had said that he would allow the release of all of the remaining records but ended up holding some back because of what he called the potential harm to national security. And while files continued to be released during President Joe Biden's administration, some remain unseen.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of "The Kennedy Half-Century," said that most researchers agree that roughly 3000 records have not yet been released, either in whole or in part, and many of those originated with the CIA.
There are still some documents in the JFK collection that researchers don't believe the president will be able to release. Around 500 documents, including tax returns, weren't subject to the 2017 disclosure requirement.
Some of the documents already released have offered details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, including CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban embassies during a trip to Mexico City just weeks before the assassination. The former Marine had previously defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.
One CIA memo describes how Oswald phoned the Soviet embassy while in Mexico City to ask for a visa to visit the Soviet Union. He also visited the Cuban embassy, apparently interested in a travel visa that would permit him to visit Cuba and wait there for a Soviet visa. On October 3, more than a month before the assassination, he drove back into the United States through a crossing point at the Texas border.
Another memo, dated the day after Kennedy's assassination, says that according to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Oswald communicated with a KGB officer while at the Soviet embassy that September.
The releases have also contributed to the understanding of that time period during the Cold War, researchers said.
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