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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump had promised to release the previously classified documents during his 2024 campaign after decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings.
“All will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.
TRUMP COMMITS TO RELEASE FILES ON JFK, MLK, RFK ASSASSINS
President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, right, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty Images)
During his first administration, Trump had promised it to release all files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed amount of material remains secret more than six decades after Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. The prime suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
After appeals by the CIA and the FBI, Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records. Trump said at the time that the potential harm to US national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is “of a gravity that outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”
Robert F. Kennedy, the 38-year-old US Attorney General and brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, is accompanied by his wife Ethel, leaving the US Embassy for London Airport on January 25 of 1964 to fly to Derbyshire. to visit the grave of his sister who died in 1947 in a plane crash. (AP Photo/Laurence Harris, File)
“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from the records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is inconsistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue Trump’s order states.
“And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information relating to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the possession of the federal government related to each of these murders is also in the public interest.”
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declassifying and releasing records related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in the ‘Oval Office of the White House. in Washington, DC on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, praised the declassification of the JFK files.
“Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has withheld this information from the American people for far too long. Americans deserve to know the truth, whether it makes the government look good or not,” he said in a statement . “As part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, I want to continue to provide transparency to the American people. The truth belongs to the people, and we will not rest until they have it.”
Trump’s promise to also release pending documents related to King and former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy leaves questions about how the president will expedite the releases.
Robert F. Kennedy, then a senator from New York, was in the presidential campaign as a Democratic candidate when Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian, on June 5, 1968, was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying assassination files related to former President John F. Kennedy (box), former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. , DC, Thursday. (Getty Images)
under the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, remaining files related to King are not to be released until 2027. James Earl Ray fatally shot King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
The deaths of King and John F. Kennedy have spawned conspiracy theories over the years, many of which allege government involvement or cover-ups.
Fox News Digital’s Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
