Trump orders release of classified JFK assassination files

On the first week of his second term, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order to declassify thousands of classified government documents. This order also aims to release the remaining federal records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The documents were previously withheld from the public under a decades-old secrecy order, which was upheld by the CIA and the FBI. Trump stated that the order would result in the "full and complete release" of all related documents, and expressed confidence that this would uncover new information about these historic events. Trump signed the order in the Oval Office, handing the pen to one of his aides and instructing them to pass it to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has been nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services.