TRUMP TO RELEASE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FILES – AT 2:17 P.M. ET:   It's time, but I wonder if we'll find anything new.  From the Washington Post:  

President Trump announced Saturday morning that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump tweeted early Saturday.

Kennedy assassination experts have been speculating for weeks about whether Trump would disclose the documents. The 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act required that the millions of pages — many of them contained in CIA and FBI documents — be published in 25 years, by Oct. 26. Over the years, the National Archives has released most of the documents, either in full or partially redacted.

But one final batch remains, and only the president has the authority to extend the papers’ secrecy past the October deadline.

In his tweet, Trump seemed to strongly imply he was going to release all the remaining documents, but the White House later said that if other government agencies made a strong case not to release the documents, he wouldn’t.

COMMENT:  There could be material that might best be kept secret, like embarrassing speculation about foreign countries, or names of individuals investigated and then cleared.  But I doubt that we'll see anything significant relating to the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald.

October 21, 2017