Trump issues an executive order releasing further JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination documents.
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| In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump further ordered that the final documents related to the murders of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. |
This is significant. When Trump signed the order at the White House, he stated, "Many people have been waiting for this for years, decades." "And everything will be revealed."
Trump's directive requires the Director of National Intelligence to present a plan within 15 days for the "full and complete release" of JFK-related data and a plan within 45 days for the release of materials pertaining to the other two assassinations.
Americans have been perplexed by the events surrounding JFK's assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, for decades. According to polls, the official explanation for the murder is widely regarded with mistrust.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the man detained in relation to JFK's death, was alleged to have carried out the assassination by himself.
Nonetheless, 16% of respondents thought Oswald collaborated with the CIA, and 20% thought he plotted with the US government.
As the son of Robert F. Kennedy and Trump's nominee for Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted in a 2023 interview that there was "strong" evidence of CIA involvement in his uncle's murder and "very solid," albeit "circumstantial," evidence that the CIA was also involved in his father's death.
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| His most recent parole application was rejected in August, and he is still detained at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. |
"Give this to RFK Jr." Trump said, passing a pen to an assistant after signing the order in the Oval Office.
Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, criticized Trump's directive, saying his grandfather's death was not a part of some "inevitable grand scheme."
"The publicization is about using JFK as a political crutch when he is not here to respond," explained Schlossberg, a Vogue political correspondent, in a post on X. This is not heroic in any way.
The U.S. Congress established a provision in 1992 requiring the release of JFK assassination data within 25 years, unless the president decided that the public interest in disclosure was exceeded by national security concerns.
When the 2017 deadline drew near, Trump approved the release of over 2,800 papers, but he gave in to pressure from the FBI and CIA to keep thousands more files from being reviewed.
Less than 4,700 papers remain partially or completely withheld after the administration of former President Joe Biden authorized the prolonged withholding of roughly 17,000 additional records.
Over 99 percent of the approximately 320,000 records examined since the 1992 law was approved have been made public, according to the National Archives.
Conspiracy theories about the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., which happened only a few months apart, have also persisted for decades.
King was shot dead outside a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. His "I Have a Dream" speech became a landmark in the fight for racial equality in America.
Convicted felon James Earl Ray received a 99-year jail sentence after being found guilty of the crime. He then denied making the statement and insisted on his innocence till his passing in 1998.
Shortly after announcing his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary, Kennedy was shot and assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel on June 5, 1968.
For the assassination, Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian Palestinian, received a death sentence that was eventually reduced to life in prison.
His most recent parole application was rejected in August, and he is still detained at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
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