He has floated some conspiracy theories for years, but now President Donald Trump will get to play a crucial role in the long-running saga over the government's Kennedy assassination records.

The 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, signed by President George H.W. Bush, set a 25-year timetable for declassification of assassination records dealing with President Kennedy.

The law set up a single collection of records at the National Archives, and set up a process for declassification. The law required the release of all government records dealing with the assassination within 25 years – with the exception of those the president certifies for postponed release.

That timeline will technically be reached on Oct. 26 of this year, but some of the estimated 3,600 still-classified records could come out sooner. Relevant agencies are already poring over records for possible release.

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President Trump has sole authority to determine whether to postpone the release of classified government documents on the Kennedy assasination

A White House official told Politico that the White House is 'familiar' with the law's requirements and working with the archives 'to enable a smooth process in anticipation of the October deadline.'

National Archives official Martha W. Murphy told the publication the government is preparing to release the information in batches, perhaps as soon as this summer.

The situation puts Trump in a unique position to influence a historical event that has consumed the nation – as well as conspiracy theorists – ever since Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

A majority of Americans have consistently believed that Kennedy was killed in a conspiracy, according to Gallup polling, notwithstanding the conclusion of the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Trump revealed a belief in multiple conspiracy theories during the presidential campaign, and became the nation's most prominent purveyor of the theory that President Obama might not have been born in Hawaii as his birth certificate said.

Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. Trump admitted in September that 'President Barack Obama was born in the United States.'

Bystanders look on as Jacqueline Kennedy reaches over to help her husband, American President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) who lies on the rear of a car after being struck by an assassin's bullet as his motorcade travels through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on 22nd November 1963

A majority of the American public has consistently expressed a view that there was a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Picture dated 22 November 1963 of US President John F. Kennedy's murderer Lee Harvey Oswald during a press conference after his arrest in Dalla

A National Enquirer story printed the above photo and claimed the man circled is Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz. The man on the far right is Lee Harvey Oswald, who is seen distributing propaganda about Fidel Castro's communist regime in New Orleans in 1963

Trump repeated the information about Rafael Cruz shortly before the Trump Indiana primary victory that knocked Ted Cruz out of the race

Donald Trump referenced the National Enquirer's Kennedy assassination story during the campaign, and gained prominence touting a conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn't born in the U.S.

Shortly before the Indiana primary, Trump brought up a National Enquirer story about Rafael Cruz, the father of his chief opponent, Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

The story featured a hazy photograph that it claimed might show Rafael Cruz standing next to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

'His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,' Trump said told Fox News. What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up. They don't even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it,' Trump said.

The records that are still classified are mostly FBI and CIA records, and were gathered by a Assassination Records Review Board. Congress enacted the law calling for the ultimate release of records following public interest around the 1991 Oliver Stone film 'JFK,' which heavily promoted the theory that Oswald didn't act alone.

Among the documents that could get released is a file on CIA-backed Cuban exile group that Oswald may have tried to infiltrate.