President Donald Trump was voted in as the Kennedy Center's board chair earlier this year after remaking the venue's board of trustees. (Getty Images)
He noted that the files would be "very interesting."
In January, Trump signed an executive order directing the release of federal government documents related to the assassinations of Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO DECLASSIFY FILES ON JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATIONS
President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas, with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left, Nov. 22, 1963. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, Fil (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, Files)
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The JFK assassination has remained a point of interest among the public for decades amid conspiracy theories about the involvement of a second shooter.
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