President Trump signed an executive order directing the declassification of remaining federal records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order aims to release these records within 15 to 45 days. This comes after previous efforts to declassify documents surrounding JFK's assassination, with some documents withheld due to concerns from the CIA and FBI. While many experts don't expect groundbreaking revelations, there is still significant public interest in learning more about these historical events.
Beyond the John F. Kennedy files, the executive order also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.Kennedy was fatally shot in downtown Dallas on Nov.
Trump has nominated Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be the health secretary in his new administration. Kennedy, whose father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 while running for president and has said he isn’t convinced that a lone gunman was solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President Kennedy, in 1963.
Trump had promised during his reelection campaign to make public the last batches of still-classified documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, which has transfixed people for decades. He made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bended to appeals from the CIA and FBI to keep some documents withheld.Only a few thousand of the millions of governmental records related to the assassination of President Kennedy have yet to be fully declassified.
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