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Final JFK Assassination Files Due To Be Released

More than 3,000 files are expected to be posted online Thursday afternoon by the National Archives. There have been concerns the documents would further fuel conspiracy theories.

The government is due to release Thursday more than 3,000 files about the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

The files would be the last to be released by the National Archives under a 1992 law that ordered the government to make all remaining documents pertaining to the assassination in its report the following year.

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