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President Donald Trump mentioned yesterday “folks have been ready for many years” to see the 80,000 information associated to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that he plans to launch as we speak.

However one man who’s already seen most of the information says to not count on any bombshells — at the very least based mostly on the 1000’s of paperwork he’s reviewed, a few of which nonetheless haven’t been made public.

Tom Samulok was a deputy director of the Assassination Information Overview Board, a authorities panel fashioned within the Nineties to review information associated to the assassination. He and a staff of dozens re-examined troves of paperwork for public launch between 1994 and 1998.

From what he reviewed, there isn’t something to vary the present conclusion of Kennedy’s assassination: {that a} lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was chargeable for his loss of life.

Samulok acknowledges he hasn’t seen all the information that might doubtlessly be launched on Tuesday.

Final month, the FBI introduced it had positioned 1000’s of latest paperwork associated to the assassination that had not been included in earlier evaluations or releases.

There may be different information at further businesses that additionally haven’t been launched, Samulok mentioned, that will comprise a brand new bucket of paperwork beforehand unseen by his fee.

And he mentioned there might nonetheless be factors of curiosity within the remaining information that will assist fill in gaps of present data, together with data from the CIA associated to Oswald’s actions forward of the November 22, 1963, assassination.