President Trump signed an executive order to declassify government records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert Kennedy, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order aims to address long-standing questions and conspiracy theories surrounding these historical events.
Trump ’s order could put an end to some long-standing questions surrounding the assassinations, all of which occurred more than a half-century agoPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to declassify government records related to the assassinations of President John Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump has nominated Sen. Kennedy's son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department.Trump's order could put an end to some long-standing questions surrounding the assassinations, all of which occurred more than a half-century ago. The executive order says,"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."
Trump during his first term in the White House, in 2017 and 2018, had authorized postponements of full disclosures, as did his successor, former President Joe Biden. On Wednesday night, Trump in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity said that he had been asked by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is a former CIA director, not to declassify remaining records about President Kennedy's killing.
President Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, after being shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The civil rights leader King was assassinated two months before RFK, on April 4, 1968, when he was shot while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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