‘FULL DETAILS!’ – Trump Orders Release of Files On Assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, One Other

OwelekeTV — US President Donald Trump has on Thursday signed an executive order directing the declassification of all remaining classified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a long-standing promise.

The order directs the director of national intelligence and attorney general to present a plan within 15 days for the “full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”

The order highlights that over 50 years after these assassinations, the federal government has yet to release all relevant records.

“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,” the order states.

“And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest,”

the order continues.

“The families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,”
the order says, adding that it is in the national interest to release these records without further delay.

While the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 mandated full public disclosure of the files by October 2017, exemptions have allowed for the continued withholding of certain documents.

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Trump’s order states that continued redactions are “not consistent with the public interest.”

Trump also ordered the release of the last remaining records on the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy, JFK’s younger brother, and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

Their deaths have been the subject of popular conspiracy theories for six decades, with surveys showing widespread doubt about official explanations of the killings.

For the other two assassinations, DNI must present a plan within 45 days for the release of their documents.

Background

OwelekeTV News recall that Trump promised during his 2024 campaign to declassify the remaining government documents around the JFK assassination, which has remained a point of public interest decades after the 1963 killing. Trump made the same pledge during his first term, but he ultimately kept some documents under wraps amid intelligence concerns.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Conspiracies have persisted about CIA involvement or the existence of another shooter.

The National Archives in 2022 released nearly 13,000 new files related to the assassination of JFK, the largest dump of documents since 2018.

Lawmakers in 1992 passed legislation requiring all remaining government records about the assassination to be released by October 2017, unless they posed certain risks to national defense or intelligence.

Both Trump and former President Biden issued extensions to keep certain documents private.

Experts have cautioned there are unlikely to be any major revelations in final batch of documents to be released.

Marin Luther King Jr. was killed in April 1968 in Memphis.

Robert F. Kennedy was killed in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan.

Robert F. Kennedy’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backed Trump’s 2024 bid for the presidency, and has been picked by Trump as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

In a 2023 interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed a conspiracy theory about the CIA being involved in his uncle’s killing.