The administration hopes the new documents will help to shed further light on the death of JFK.
The release includes almost 1,500 files, but still leaves more than 10-thousand either partially redacted or withheld entirely.
It will likely prolong an ongoing debate between the federal government and JFK historians, who have long argued national security agencies have continuously stonewalled a mandated release.
But historians say the documents are very unlikely to include a so-called “smoking gun” that could change the public understanding of the circumstances surrounding the former president’s untimely death.
In October, Joe Biden delayed a scheduled release to “protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations”.
Public polling has long shown that most Americans do not believe the federal findings that Kennedy was killed by a single man, Lee Harvey Oswald.
