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President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to declassify all remaining classified documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy (JFK), and Martin Luther King Jr. The move aims to bring long-awaited transparency to three of the most scrutinized tragedies in U.S. history.
“This is a big one. A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,” Trump said on Thursday at the White House. The order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to develop plans for releasing the JFK files within 15 days, and those related to RFK and MLK within 45 days.
Trump’s decision fulfills a campaign promise made during his re-election bid, echoing a similar pledge from his first term, during which he withheld some documents at the request of intelligence agencies citing national security concerns. “The families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,” the order states.
Only a fraction of the millions of records related to JFK’s 1963 assassination in Dallas, Texas, remain classified. The event, in which JFK was fatally shot by Marine veteran Lee Harvey Oswald, has fueled decades of conspiracy theories. Public interest remains high, with polls indicating widespread skepticism about the official account that Oswald acted alone.
The order also extends to files on Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated on June 5, 1968, while celebrating his California Democratic primary victory, and Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Both assassinations have also been the subject of intense public scrutiny and allegations of broader conspiracies.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of RFK and Trump’s nominee for U.S. health secretary, has long questioned the official accounts of his father’s and uncle’s deaths, suggesting CIA involvement. During the signing ceremony, Trump handed the pen used for the order to an aide, directing it to RFK Jr.
In his first days back in office, Trump has signed multiple executive orders, including reversing key Biden-era policies, granting pardons to those charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot, and imposing immigration crackdowns. However, a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked his controversial order denying birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. without at least one citizen or permanent resident parent, labeling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”
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