'Exciting' but no bombshells: four key JFK files takeaways

Experts praised a move towards transparency, but there are no major revelations in the documents - and some still have yet to be released.

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As many experts expected, this latest release by the Trump administration does not answer all lingering questions about one of the US's historic turning points - the 1963 killing of Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

But the latest batch does include documents that are now mostly or fully unredacted. They reveal further how much the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) observed JFK's killer before the shooting.

A US government investigation in the 1960s concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a drifter and former US Marine who at one point defected to the then-Soviet Union, acted alone when he shot at Kennedy's motorcade from a nearby building.

However, the case still prompts questions, along with wild conspiracy theories, more than 60 years later - and the latest release is unlikely to change that. Here are some key takeaways.

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