JFK truth to be revealed TODAY as deadline arrives and Trump vows to open secret files

The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 required the US Government to release the secret records on the death of the President within 25 years.

The deadline follows ’s vow to reveal all the remaining files to the public.

Republican Representative Walter Jones said: “This is about the people of America.

“I’ve said publicly that if Mr Trump, the president of the United States, would do this for the American people, he would be a hero with the majority of people as it relates to the Kennedy assassination.”

Many conspiracy theorists have accused the CIA of involvement in the assassination of JFK, while others have pointed their fingers at Russia or suggested there was a second shooter.

The US Government has previously blocked the release of the files.

Mr Jones claimed the CIA and other agencies were behind the decision to keep what happened under wraps.

He said: ”Fifty-four years later, if they are afraid of the truth, then maybe they ought not to be in the position they are in.

“The American people have a right to the truth. This is one of those tragedies, like Pearl Harbour, like 9/11 — and the assassination of John Kennedy changed the direction of this nation.

“Anybody that does not want the American people to know the truth, then they have got something to hide.”

Mr Jones also asked what Kennedy’s supposed killer, Lee Harvey Oswald was doing in Mexico City before the assassination or what were his links to the CIA.

The US President broke the news that the files would be declassified over Twitter.

He said: “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.”

More than 3,000 never-before-seen documents are set to be released next week. In total hundreds of thousands of previously classified pages will be made available to the public.

The files will take a closer look at the 1963 shooting of President John F. Kennedy as he rode in an open top car through Dallas, Texas.