President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify government files related to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. This decision fulfills a campaign pledge Trump made, emphasizing transparency and accountability in these historical investigations.
President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968.
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The Executive Order and Its Significance
Trump’s executive order highlights the importance of public access to these records, stating: “More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”
Trump added, “I’m going to release them immediately. We’re going to see the information. We are looking at it right now.”
