The National Archives of the United States (NARA) published the fourth in a series of documents related to the investigation of the murder of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy. This is stated in a message on the website of the archive.

The press release specifies that the total number of documents placed in free access in the fourth stage of publication is 13,213. The report emphasizes that most of the cases published on November 9, although made public earlier, but only in an edited form. "The versions of the documents released today were prepared shortly before October 26, 2017 and were sent with the aim of their as soon as possible dissemination," the message says..

As the press release added, the publication of documents is in accordance with the law on the Kennedy archive of 1992. It sets out the deadlines for the secrecy of the relevant data sets for the investigation of the murder. The archive message contains a link where you can immediately download the required documents.

The first documents relating to the Kennedy assassination investigation were published on October 27 by the US National Archives, as the statutory deadline expired. Then, in free access were laid about 3 thousand. documents. Prior to this, the last time Kennedy-related archives were published on July 24.

On October 28, US President Donald Trump promised to disclose all the remaining documents in order to "put an end to the conspiracy theories", although earlier, on the advice of the executive authorities, he had decided to suspend the publication of the remaining papers. The reason was the possible damage to national security and persons involved in the investigation of the Kennedy assassination, in the event of their de-anonymization.

In response to an application for a temporary freeze on the publication of documents, WikiLeaks offered $ 100,000. for classified documents. The condition for payment of the fee was information about the violation of law, inefficiency and administrative errors of the US authorities during the investigation.

As a result, on October 31, the FBI authorized the publication of all documents, although with the reservation that the names of the informants of the bureau will still be hidden.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by former Marine Lie Kharvi Oswald on November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Oswald himself was killed under strange circumstances while transferring to prison during the investigation. The alleged killer, who lived in the USSR for two years, acted alone.