Trump signs order to declassify assassination files of JFK and MLK Jr

Thursday, Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents regarding the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., according to an aide who spoke to Reuters. The announcement, made at the White House, fulfills a promise Trump first made during his administration in 2017.

 

“In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other topics of great public interest,” Trump said last week.

 

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) previously disclosed that approximately 97% of the roughly 5 million pages in its JFK assassination collection have already been made public. However, thousands of pages remained classified or heavily redacted, leaving historians and the public eager for full transparency.