JFK files branded ‘illegible’ as furious Twitter fans complain they can’t read them
Conspiracy theorists hoping to uncover an alternative account of President Kennedy's 1963 death have been deterred by the state of the documents
FURIOUS Twitter users have lashed out at the newly-released JFK files - branding them so "illegible" that they can't be read anyway.
On Donald Trump's orders, 2,800 previously-classified records relating to President John F. Kennedy's assassination have been released to the public.
But many conspiracy theorists hoping to uncover an alternative account of JFK's 1963 death have been deterred by the state of the papers.
One Twitter user, Robyn Hammontree, quickly took to the social media site to complain: "The main thing I’ve learned so far from the JFK docs is that there was no need to classify them because the writing is illegible."
Another suggested that they were in need of a means to "decipher" to files.
John McKinney wrote: "Somebody procure a transcriptionist to decipher some of these JFK docs with illegible handwriting that the "National Archives" thankfully produced. Awesome reads so far! This will take days..."
Others had advice on which of the records aren't even worth attempting to read.
One Twitter user helpfully said: "Don't start with the first one. It's handwritten and illegible. It'll just frustrate you. Go further in. Most are actually typed."
A teacher going by the the username Plain Jane added: "30 years as an elementary teacher, I can read anyone's writing. I can't read this..."
While Kathleen Matthews complained: "Bless the journalists who have to read the JFK files. I looked at one and can’t understand the handwriting."
As the White House published the documents on the National Archives' website late on Thursday (local time), many scrambled to trawl through the hundreds of thousands of pages deemed sensitive by US intelligence.
In 1992, Congress passed a law requiring all five million pages relating to the assassination to be publicly disclosed in full within 25 years.
Alongside JFK's death, the papers are believed to cover topics ranging from CIA assassination plots to Martin Luther King Jr.
President Trump had said he wanted to release all the files, but was talked out of doing so by the CIA, FBI, Department of State and other agencies.
Some redacted documents should be released following a further six-month review, but it is possible those records could remain secret even after next year's deadline on 26 April.
