Today is the deadline for the release of all the remaining classified government records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Congress passed a law 25 years ago that required the last batch of documents, held at the National Archives and Records Administration, be made available to the public. While President Donald Trump has the authority to extend the deadline, he recently indicated that he would like to go ahead with the release.

There have been endless conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination and there are still unanswered questions about the events leading up to his death 54 years ago. Some 350,000 people every year visit the former Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed Kennedy. Nowadays, the building is home to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza which The Takeaway recently visited and interviewed curator Stephen Fagin.

Hugh Aynesworth, was a reporting for the Dallas Morning News when President Kennedy was assassinated. He is the author of: “November 22, 1963: Witness to History,” and shares his expectations about the expected release of the last JFK documents.

The eyewitness account audio used in this segment was provided by the Sixth Floor Museum's Oral History Collection. Special thanks to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for their help in producing this story.