US President Donald Trump has signed the executive order directing officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in American history, the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Talking to reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump said, a lot of people have been waiting for this for decades and it is time for the American people to know the truth. The order directs top administration officials to present a plan to declassify the documents within 15 days.
President John F Kennedy was killed in Dallas in 1963. His brother Robert F Kennedy was assassinated while running for president in California in 1968, just two months after Martin Luther King Jr., America’s most famous civil rights leader, was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee. Several documents related to the investigations have been released in the years since, although thousands remain redacted, particularly related to the sprawling JFK investigation.