Russia hands over its JFK assassination files to US lawmaker

The Russian ambassador to the US has given Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna copies of the declassified Soviet files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the embassy announced on Tuesday, RT reports.

Ambassador Aleksandr Darchiev met with Luna, a Republican from Florida, and handed her files compiled from the Russian state archives, diplomats said.

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was killed in Dallas during a campaign trip to Texas on November 22, 1963. The board formed to look into the crime came to the conclusion that the murder was the work of Lee Harvey Oswald, who acted alone, and was not part of a major conspiracy. According to the commission, the shots were fired from the sixth floor of a building housing a school book depository in the city’s central square. This is where a scoped rifle and spent brass were found.

According to the Russian Embassy, many of the files had already been presented to the US by Soviet officials during Kennedy’s funeral in 1963.

“I have received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia. A team of experts is enroute to my office in the morning to begin translation and full review of documents,” Luna wrote.

Luna said journalist Jefferson Morley is helping her review the 350-page collection. “We will be posting translations, prepared by fluent Russian speakers, of significant material in the document. We will provide context on what this document is, how it came to be, and how it compares with what is known about Russia’s response to JFK’s assassination,” Morley wrote.

Luna has been campaigning for the release of all information related to the killing of Kennedy, the 35th US president, on November 22, 1963. She has questioned whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the murder, was actually responsible.

The KGB collected files on Oswald, a former US Marine with pro-communist views, because he had lived in the Soviet Union for about three years and was married to a Russian woman.

Although the official investigation concluded that Oswald acted alone, various theories persist regarding Kennedy’s death, with some suggesting that the CIA or other elements of the US government were involved.

US President Donald Trump released 2,800 documents on the Kennedy assassination in 2017 and an additional 80,000 pages related to the case in March 2025.

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