FIFTY-four years after the assassination of John Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the US State continues its cover-up of the truth.

In a bid to deflect attention from his own political difficulties, including the Congressional investigation into alleged links between Putin's billionaire regime in Moscow and fellow billionaire Trump during the 2016 Election campaign, Trump had promised to release "all" the files on the assassination.

This had sent shock waves through the CIA, FBI, and what Dwight D Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" in the US.

Very few Americans, and even fewer non-Americans, believe the "official" version of events, singling out Lee Harvey Oswald as the "lone assassin."

But Trump has been thwarted in his bid to release all the files.

Around 300 of the most controversial have been withheld by the CIA and FBI, on spurious grounds of "national security," and will not be released until April 2018, giving these agencies plenty of time to get busy doctoring and "redacting" these highly-incriminating documents.

Seekers of truth about this pivotal event in 20th Century US history, and its blood-soaked, 15 years long involvement in a losing War in Vietnam, would be well-advised to read Jim Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins, and Jim Marr's book Crossfire.

They supplied the hard facts underpinning Olive Stone's award-winning film JFK, which exposes the CIA and US military conspiracy that lay behind this murderous coup d'etat.

James Roberts, Wallasey.