President Trump delayed the release of thousands of pages of classified documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination on Oct. 26, citing concerns from the CIA, FBI and other federal agencies. Then came word late Thursday that President Trump had acquiesced to CIA and FBI lobbying to withhold tens of thousands of the files. For historians, journalists and Kennedy buffs, the promise of revelations about what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, disappeared. And illegally obtained dirt could be disguised as information from a “confidential informant.”The Hoover memo drew the most attention from media outlets and on social media. Hoover said the FBI had repeatedly warned Dallas police about threats against Oswald in the hours after Kennedy’s assassination.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 23:46 UTC