The president of the United States, Donald Trumpsigned an executive order this Thursday to declassify the files related to the murders of the former president John F. Kennedy (JFK), from the former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr..
“This is a big one. Many people have been waiting for it for years, decades. Everything is going to be revealed,” he said when signing that order in the Oval Office of the White House.
The White House posted on its website that the families of those affected and the population “They deserve transparency and truth“: “It is in the nation’s interest to finally release all records related to those murders without delay.”
This document indicates that in the next 15 days the director of national intelligence and the prosecutor’s office must present a plan regarding the publication of the files related to JFK and that in the next 45 days the same must be done with the other two.
John F. Kennedy ruled the United States from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963. That day he was murdered while traveling in an open-top vehicle through Dallas.a Texas.
Former Navy sniper Lee Harvey Oswald shot him in the head. Although according to the official investigation he acted alone, conspiracy theories persist in this regard.
Los National Archives had already released documentsbut there were others held for security reasons. The White House noted in June 2023, under the mandate of Joe Biden (2021-2025), that the National Archives had already made 99% of its records public.
“I have determined that the information retention of records related to the murder of president John F. Kennedy is not coherent with the public interest and that the publication of these records should have been done a long time ago,” said Trump, who assumed his second term last Monday, on Thursday.
The Republican leader added that although no congressional law mandates the release of information related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) and Martin Luther King Jr., he also considers it in the public interest for the records to be made known in possession of the federal government.
The former attorney general and former senator, JFK’s brother, was murdered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los AngelesCalifornia, on June 5, 1968, shortly after having achieved victory in that state in the Democratic primary. His son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is nominated by Trump to be his Cabinet’s health secretary.
In April 1968, two months before the assassination of “RFK”, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the main figures in the fight against segregationism and social justice, was shot dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis (Tennessee). .
Trump announced during the campaign his intention to that these records be made available to the people and he reiterated that promise in the mass bath that took place on Monday at the Capital One Arena in Washington shortly after the inauguration.
