Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised President Donald Trump’s move to declassify files on his dad, uncle and Martin Luther King Jr.'s killings.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017, but the release has been held up by national security concerns.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, launched an investigation into the tragedy. Decades later, in 2023,
As the Rolling Stones lyric goes, the answer to “who killed the Kennedys” was “after all…you and me”. In Don DeLillo’s novel Libra, John F Kennedy’s assassination emerged from a CIA plot. And in the Ultimate Marvel world,
Trump’s decision to release these files comes in the wake of strong advocacy from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of RFK, who has long pushed for the declassification of documents related to his uncle’s assassination.
President Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as well as those of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Ahead of the Donald Trump inauguration, US President-elect announced that he would release classified documents in the next few days regarding the assassinations of U.S. President John F.
The declassification of these documents, which are essential in American history, could finally provide some of the answers long awaited by these families.