Photos: Some JFK files released, hundreds on hold for 6 more months

US President John F Kennedy’s assassination was a significant moment in American history, triggering theories that his death was a larger conspiracy than the act of a suspected lone gunman -- Lee Harvey Oswald. The US government on Thursday released a long-awaited trove of secret files, but withheld others for further review on national security grounds.

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President John F. Kennedy in an undated photograph. In what was supposed to be the grand unveiling of government secrets about the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy, President Trump didn’t quite deliver the details. (JFK Presidential Library and Museum / Handout / File Photo via REUTERS)

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U.S. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy seen arriving at Love Field in Dallas, Texas less than an hour before his assassination in this November 22, 1963 photo by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton obtained from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. (JFK Library / The White House / Cecil Stoughton / File Photo via REUTERS)

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The motorcade carrying President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas minutes before his assassination. According to the Warren Commission, appointed by the US government to probe the assassination, a single bullet, called the ‘magic bullet’ hit Kennedy and governor Connally, The New York Times reported. (JFK Library / The White House / Cecil Stoughton / File Photo via REUTERS)

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In this Nov. 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media at the Dallas police station for another round of questioning for the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s death was perhaps one of the reasons for people to believe Kennedy’s assassination was a larger conspiracy. (AP)

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This Nov. 22, 1963, file photo shows an Associated Press ‘A wire copy’ edited for the teletypesetter circuit, reporting on the assignation of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. (AP)

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Part of a file, dated Nov. 24, 1963, quoting FBI director J. Edgar Hoover as he talks about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, released for the first time on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. The public is getting a look at thousands of secret government files related to JFK’s assassination, but President Donald Trump delayed the release of some of the files, citing security concerns. (Jon Elswick / AP)

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A man enters the United States National Archives building on October 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. The US government on Thursday released a mammoth, long-awaited trove of secret files on the assassination of president Kennedy, but withheld others for further review on national security grounds. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images / AFP)