President Trump signed an executive order to release classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The mandate requires the administration to present a plan to declassify the remaining JFK documents within 15 days and the records from the other two cases within 45 days.
Unanswered questions surrounding the assassinations of three of America’s most prominent political figures have persisted for years – but some new facts may soon come to light. Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday ordering the release of classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, senator Robert F Kennedy, and civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
The mandate requires administration officials to present a plan to declassify the remaining JFK documents within 15 days, and the records from the other two cases within 45 days. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time, for years, for decades,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And everything will be revealed.” Over the years, numerous documents related to the assassinations have been released, yet even decades later, the three cases remain shrouded in mystery, particularly the assassination of John F Kennedy. President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. John F Kennedy and the circumstances that led to it have puzzled journalists and investigators for years, fueling far-fetched conspiracy theories involving government agents, mafia figures and even foreign states. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot in Dallas on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine who fired at Kennedy’s motorcade from the sixth floor of a nearby building. JFK was in a convertible also carrying First Lady Jackie Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally Jr and his wife. The Warren Commission, which investigated the case, stated that Kennedy was killed by a single bullet fired by Oswald. The same bullet also injured Connally. Oswald was arrested but two days later shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner, at police headquarters in Dallas.But some have questioned those findings and have suggested more than one person may have been involved in Kennedy’s killing. In 1979, the US House Select Committee on Assassinations said that while it largely supported the Warren Commission’s findings, there was a “high probability that two gunmen fired at President Kennedy”. Much more recently, one of the the Secret Service agents who witnessed the assassination broke his silence, questioning the single-bullet theory. Some discrepancies between the official reports and his personal experience led him to believe there may have been multiple shooters rather than a single assassin. Landis was standing on the running board of a car following Kennedy’s open-top limousine when, as he recounts, he heard a series of gunshots and saw a bullet strike the president from behind. The then-Governor of Texas, John Connally, who was sitting in front of the president, was wounded but survived. The Secret Service was following Oswald for years prior to Kennedy’s assassination and knew he defected to the Soviet Union, but eventually returned to the US. Some of the documents released in recent years reveal Oswald travelled to Mexico City and called the Soviet embassy to request a visa. He also went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico to request a visa to visit Cuba as well. During his first term in office, Trump released some additional documents but said others had to remain classified for national security reasons. Ex president Joe Biden also released some files during his time in office, but it is still uncertain whether administration officials will fully disclose all the records this time. Senator Robert F Kennedy Snr, the brother of JFK, was shot in a hotel in Los Angeles in 1968 by a Palestinian-Jordanian man, Sirhan Sirhan, who was angry at US support for Israel. At the time, RFK was running as a candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death. This was commuted to a life sentence and he is still serving his term in prison in California. After signing the executive order to release the files, Trump requested that the pen be handed to Robert F Kennedy Jr, son of the assassinated senator and nephew of JFK. RFK Jr ran as an independent presidential candidate this year before dropping out of the race, and is now Trump’s pick as health secretary. He has advocated a range of conspiracy theories. He has claimed, without evidence that vaccines are behind an “epidemic” of diseases, and that the CIA was directly involved in the assassination of his father. A number of other conspiracy theories, without evidence, have developed around the attack, including that Sirhan was hypnotised to carry it out on behalf of others, and then framed
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