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(Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order declassifying files on the assassinations of former presidents John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., a Trump aide said.
“Give it to RFK Jr.,” Trump said of the pen he used to sign the order declassifying information about the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations. “All will be revealed.”
Trump had promised on the campaign trail to release classified intelligence and law enforcement documents about the 1963 assassination of JFK, the 35th president of the United States.
He had made a similar promise during his term from 2017 to 2021, and he did release some documents related to JFK’s assassination in 1963. But in the end, he bowed to pressure from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and held a significant portion of documents hidden, citing national security concerns.
The JFK assassination in particular is a source of enduring fascination in the United States. The assassination has been attributed to a single gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Department of Justice and other federal government agencies have confirmed this conclusion in the intervening decades. But polls show many Americans believe his death was the result of a wider conspiracy.
