President Trump announced that he would declassify all remaining files murders President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. sign an executive order at the White House on Thursday.
After an aide announced that the President was “signing executive action ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.,” Mr. Trump said, “This is huge, huh? A lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time – for years, decades.”
The president instructed his aide to deliver the pen used to sign the order to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert F. Kennedy's son and Mr. Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The elder Kennedy was a former attorney general, senator from New York, and Democratic presidential candidate when he was assassinated in 1968.
Following the release of some JFK files in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said that 97% of the approximately 5 million pages in its collection related to the assassination were public.
chairman Promise It was during his first administration in 2017 that he would release the remaining JFK files. This included approximately 3,000 documents that were never made public and 30,000 documents that were previously released with amendments, but not all files were made public during his first term.
In 1992, Congress ordered that all murder documents be released within 25 years.