Earlier this week, the White House, at the direction of President Trump, released a trove of over 60,000 pages of documents of files form the United States National Archives about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

One would be hard-pressed to find a topic that has spawned more theories and discussion than that fateful November day in Dallas more than 60 years ago.

While in 2025, it may seem that conspiracy theories are everywhere but those of us who remember the pre-internet days will tell you that the JFK assassination was the one that stood out, to the point that you will find someone to believe any theory other than Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

With the thousands of unredacted pages out in the public domain, one has to ask: did we learn anything new?

Yes and no.

According to analysis by the Association Press, Some of the documents from previous releases have offered details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, including CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban embassies during a trip to Mexico City just weeks before the assassination.

The former Marine had previously defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.

One CIA memo describes how Oswald phoned the Soviet Embassy while in Mexico City to ask for a visa to visit the Soviet Union. He also visited the Cuban Embassy, apparently interested in a travel visa that would permit him to visit Cuba and wait there for a Soviet visa.

On Oct. 3, more than a month before the assassination, he drove back into the United States through a crossing point at the Texas border.

Another memo, dated the day after Kennedy’s assassination, says that according to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Oswald communicated with a KGB officer while at the Soviet Embassy that September.

The releases have also contributed to the understanding of that time period during the Cold War, researchers said.

While some documents still remain out of the public view, it seems pretty clear that we will never get a definitive answer to what happened in Dallas on Nov. 23 1963.