This image provided by the Warren Commission is an overhead view of President John F. Kennedy's car in Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, and was the commission's Exhibit No. 698. Special agent Clinton J. Hill is shown riding atop the rear of the limousine.
Seeking to settle the matter once and for all, Congress passed a law 25 years ago mandating the government release all its documents and giving agencies a long window to keep sensitive information secret. And this Thursday, in pursuant with the JFK Records Act, the remaining few thousand secret government documents relating to the assassination - from a total that once made up millions - will see the light of day, barring a block from President Donald Trump.
In the agonizing days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it became apparent to the nation's newly sworn president that much of what seemed so inexplicable needed to be explained. The murder of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald two days after his arrest had precluded any public trial, and any determination of his motive.