JFK files: This is what conspiracy theorists think of the released documents

Almost 3000 previously classified files on the assassination of President John F Kennedy have been released this week by the US government.

President Donald Trump authorised the release of almost all of the files, which grants the public access to information surrounding the death of Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963.

The available documents have now been published on the US National Archives website, and are free for anyone to read.

Some documents have been withheld from the public and are undergoing further reviews, as they could allegedly threaten national security.

BBC News quote Trump as saying:

I have no choice - today - but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security.

The assassination of JFK is one of the most notorious and speculated events in American history.

At the time Lee Harvey Oswald was named as the lone assassin but there many inconsistencies in the story and plenty of conspiracdy theories about what actually happened that day.

Was Oswald working with the Russians or Cubans? Was there a second shooter? Why was his successor, Lyndon B Johnson, sworn in just two hours after he was shot?

There are many questions that will probably never get answered in regards to the case, but over on Reddit users have been searching through the documents in the hope of uncovering some interesting facts.

Their discoveries range from long form theories to smaller facts and all of them are worth reading.

Here are some of the best they have shared.

HT Reddit

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