The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order this Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former, and Martin Luther King.
“Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest that all records related to these murders are finally released without delay,” reads the executive order signed by Trump.
The Republican magnate has stressed that “the continued concealment of information” from the files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy “is not consistent with the public interest.” “The publication of these records has been a long time coming,” he added.
Within 15 days, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General must “submit a plan to the President for the full and complete disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
Likewise, the executive order urges the aforementioned relevant authorities to present a plan within 45 days for the full disclosure of records on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Martin Luther King.
“Although no law of Congress governs the release of information relating to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Martin Luther King, I have determined that publication (…) is in the public interest,” he added.
Lawyer and senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel during a campaign event to celebrate the victory in the Democratic Party’s primary elections in the race for the Presidency of the United States in 1968.
The death of the 42-year-old senator from New York occurred less than five years after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, at age 46 on November 22, 1963 in the city of Dallas, in Texas.
For his part, the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was assassinated on April 4, 1968 while preparing a demonstration in support of the black garbage collectors’ union in Memphis.
