"As part of the Biden-Harris administration's continued commitment to government transparency and accountability, President Biden issued a memorandum today concluding the review of records from President John F. Kennedy's assassination records collection. Under President Biden's leadership, agencies have fully declassified over 16,000 records since 2021," Jean-Pierre said on Friday.
The action reflects Biden’s instruction that all information related to Kennedy's assassination should be released except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise, Jean-Pierre said.
"As a result, over 99 percent of the records in the collection are now publicly available at the National Archives," Jean-Pierre said.
In keeping with Biden's direction, the National Archives will digitize the entire collection to make it more accessible to the public, she added.
The Warren Commission's report was initially sealed until 2039 before Congress passed the so-called JFK Records Act in 1992, which directed the National Archives and Records Administration to develop a collection on the assassination.
The official narrative has been the subject of intense criticism whereby a number of alternative theories to explain Kennedy’s assassination have since been offered.