President Trump signed an executive order to declassify remaining federal records on the JFK assassination, fulfilling a campaign promise. The move has been criticized by JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, who called it using his grandfather as a 'political prop'. The declassification also includes files on the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy. Experts are not expecting major revelations, as only a few thousand records remain classified.
The grandson of former US president John F Kennedy has criticised Donald Trump for ordering the release of thousands of classified files on his grandfather's assassination. The 1963 killing in Dallas is the source of one of the most well-known conspiracy theories of modern times. Lee Harvey Oswald was said to be the gunman, but was shot dead himself two days after JFK's killing.
The order will also declassify remaining federal records on the assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr in 1968, and JFK's brother, Robert F Kennedy, who was shot dead the same year while running for president. Mr King was shot outside a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been supporting striking sanitation workers, and died in hospital. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to assassinating him, but later renounced his plea and maintained his innocence up until his death.
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