Fact Check: Is photo allegedly showing 1963 JFK letter about arresting Hillary Clinton real?

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday, March 18 released more than 64,000 documents related to the assassination of former President John F Kennedy in 1963, per New York Times.

Trump visited the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, March 17, and announced that the JFK files would be made public on Tuesday.

Amid all this, a rumor circulated online in the form of a photo showing a 1963 letter signed by JFK in which he wrote, "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton." But is there any truth to this? Let us find out below.

Claim: Photo allegedly shows 1963 JFK letter about arresting Hillary Clinton

In March, several X (formerly Twitter) users discussed a viral photo purportedly showing a 1963 letter signed by former President John F Kennedy in which he wrote, "I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton."

Interestingly, the claim first appeared on March 18, the day President Trump's administration made public thousands of unredacted files related to JFK's assassination in Texas on November 22, 1963.

An X user posted a purported picture of the letter on March 18 and wrote in the caption, "BREAKING: First documents from the JFK Files have been released. All I have to say is… WOW."

False: The photo posted online is a doctored image

The photo shared online by the X user is not a real image and had been doctored to alter its contents, according to Snopes.

For example, the X user added their handle in the round seal on the envelope in the bottom-left corner in a not-so-obvious manner, per the fact-checking outlet.

Moreover, On July 18, 1963, the date displayed on the letter, Hillary was 15 years old and did not change her last name until she married Bill Clinton in 1975, Snopes reported.

Furthermore, the doctored photo existed as a variant of an internet joke referencing the conspiracy theory that the Clintons quietly killed dozens of people who possessed incriminating evidence about them, per the fact-checking outlet.

Meanwhile, a Google search led to the real image of the original letter from which the doctored one was made in an eBay listing.

The authentic letter showed Kennedy expressing gratitude to a "Miss Perdunn" for her service in the US Peace Corps, per Snopes.

The John F Kennedy files

The long-awaited release of thousands of files on the assassination of John F Kennedy sparked a desperate search for new clues in the shocking crime, per the New York Post.

Author Gerald Posner, who wrote the 1993 book 'Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK' told the outlet that he was "about 22,000 pages" into the newly released files but had yet to see a bombshell piece of evidence. 

Posner said, "I haven’t seen anything yet that is real news, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something. The biggest question I have as I go through is, 'Why were these classified for so many years?' It’s pretty preposterous."

However, the documents do contain some details surrounding the tragic events of November 22, 1963, as one file explored a theory that a "small clique" in the CIA being involved and an apparent KGB investigation to determine whether assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a secret Russian agent, per the outlet.