President Trump issued an executive order on Thursday demanding the release of federal government papers relating to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
The order requires the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to provide a strategy within 15 days for the “full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”
“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,” according to the decree.
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“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,” according to the order.
During his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed to declassify the remaining government papers about the JFK assassination, which has been a source of public fascination decades after the 1963 massacre. Trump made the same promise during his first administration, but he eventually withheld some documents due to intelligence concerns.
Lee Harvey Oswald murdered John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. Conspiracies have circulated about CIA participation or the presence of another gunman.
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In 2022, the National Archives published approximately 13,000 new papers relating to the killing of John F. Kennedy, the largest document dump since 2018.
In 1992, lawmakers passed laws requiring any remaining government data about the killing to be revealed by October 2017, unless they constituted a risk to national defense or intelligence. Both Trump and previous President Biden granted extensions to keep certain records confidential.
According to experts, the final batch of documents to be revealed would most likely include no major surprises.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Robert F. Kennedy, supported Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and has been named Trump’s choice to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services. In a 2023 interview, Kennedy Jr. supported a conspiracy theory that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death.
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