There’s always the possibility that something would slip through that would be the tiny tip of a much larger iceberg that would be revealing,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

But during his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump promised to release all records relating to not only JFK’s assassination, but the killings of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and MLK, claiming that enough time had passed that there were no real national security concerns that would require them to remain classified.