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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.
More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, the federal government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.
That's [a] big one, huh? A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades.
There's always the possibility that something would slip through that would be the tiny tip of a much larger iceberg that would be revealing.
That's what researchers look for. Now, odds are you won't find that but it is possible that it's there.
The truth is a lot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn't need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme. Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he's not here to punch back. There's nothing heroic about it.
Declassification is using JFK as a political prop when he's not here to punch back. There's nothing heroic about it.
JFK Assassination
- Trump administration releases thousands of JFK files
- FBI discovers previously unknown records linked to John F Kennedy assassination
- US National Archives releases documents linked to John F Kennedy assassination
sources
- 1.France 24
- 2.The Guardian
- 3.Al Jazeera
- 4.The Times
- 5.Le Monde
- 6.The Times of India
- 7.Agence France-Presse
- 8.NBC News
- 9.USA Today
- 10.Vogue
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.Central Intelligence Agency
- 2.National Archives and Records Administration
- 3.Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 4.Democratic Party
- 5.Warren Commission
- 6.White House
- 7.Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility
- 8.US Department of Health and Human Services
- 9.North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- 10.Gallup
- 11.President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- 12.Republican Party
persons
- 1.Robert F Kennedy Jr
- 2.John F Kennedy
- 3.Martin Luther King Jr
- 4.Donald Trump
- 5.James Earl Ray
- 6.Lee Harvey Oswald
- 7.Jack Ruby
- 8.Sirhan Sirhan
- 9.Joe Biden
- 10.Lyndon B Johnson
- 11.Ethel Kennedy
- 12.Jack Schlossberg