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JFK assassination: US to release secret files

The US National Archives is releasing the final batch of classified files relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963. Over 30,000 unredacted documents will be made available to view online, but what will the files tell us that we do not already know? Philip Shenon is the author of "A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination".

(Photo: John F Kennedy in 1962. Credit: National Archive/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

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