As President Trump seeks to finally end the government's secrecy surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Republican lawmaker tasked with uncovering the truth has shared a shocking claim.
Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna, the head of Trump's new task force on government secrets, endorsed the theory that multiple gunmen were involved in the horrific murder.
"I believe that there were two shooters, and we should be finding more information as we are able to," she said.
Although decades have gone by since the assassination, the federal government has long been reluctant to share all of the records it has, fueling speculation of a cover-up.
In order to bring transparency to this pivotal event, President Trump signed an executive order to declassify all of the remaining files, while also ordering a full declassification of the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within days of Trump's command, the FBI made the stunning discovery of 2,400 additional, previously unidentified files on JFK's murder.
The availability of new information has led to anticipation that one of the greatest mysteries in American history could finally be solved.
Decades after the assassination, most Americans remain doubtful that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Some of the most common conspiracy theories point to the involvement of the CIA, the mob, or Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Kennedy was shot in the head while passing through downtown Dallas, Texas in his motorcade on November 22, 1963. The shocking event was unwittingly captured on a home video camera by a bystander.
After a ten-month investigation, the Warren Commission concluded that 24-year-old Oswald shot Kennedy twice from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy passed by through Dealey Plaza.
Oswald, a communist sympathizer who spent time living in the Soviet Union, denied killing JFK and claimed he was a scapegoat. Two days after the assassination, Oswald was shot dead on live TV by Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
One of the most heavily debated questions concerns the number of shots that struck Kennedy. Conspiracy theorists have often rejected the Warren Commission's conclusions about the bullet that exited Kennedy's throat - labeled the "magic bullet" because of its supposedly improbable flight path - to suggest multiple shooters were involved.
According to Luna, Trump's task force will hold its first hearing in March. She said witnesses could include people who were in the operating room as Kennedy died.
"In previous investigations, they didn't have access to the information that we are going to have access to, and so that's a big deal, especially if you're looking at what truly happened with JFK," Luna said.
