President Donald Trump on Thursday signed off on the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Here’s a video of the announcement and Trump’s brief remarks:
BREAKING: The moment Trump signs off on the declassification of the JFK, RFK and MLK files.
"We've been waiting for this for years. Decades."pic.twitter.com/snOJNebJWj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 23, 2025
Trump issued an executive order instructing his Director of National Intelligence to develop a plan within 15 days for the complete declassification of documents related to the JFK assassination.
The order states: ‘More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events,’
It continues, ‘Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.’
Intelligence officials have 45 days to formulate a plan for releasing the archives on RFK and King.
While millions of pages of JFK-related documents have already been released, a few thousand remain locked away in the archives.
Trump had promised on previous occasions to release the files but stopped short of doing so during his first term.
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