(NewsNation) — Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs a House panel on federal government secrets, has received Russian files on the Nov. 23, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Conveyance of 350 pages of material was confirmed this week by Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. and Republican Luna, who indicated the files will be shared with the public soon.
“It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history,” she said on X.
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Assuming the documents are accurate, the big question is whether the dusted-off Russian information will yield any new or surprising information. Experts say at most, realistically, the Russian files could offer additional insight into JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who defected to Russia from 1959 to 1962. Oswald lived in Minsk and returned to the U.S. with a Russian wife and daughter.
“[It’s] potentially very important, but potentially propaganda, too. So, we need to dig in and really understand what we have,” former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley, who is helping Luna review the material, told The New York Post.
The Trump administration earlier this year released what was billed as the last remaining classified files on JFK. Little new information emerged to shake the widely accepted narrative that Oswald acted alone when he fatally shot Kennedy as the president’s motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.
