United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday, announcing that documents related to the assassinations of former US President John F Kennedy (JFK), his younger brother, Senator Robert F Kennedy (RFK) and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK) are to be declassified.
According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 99 percent of records about JFK’s death have already been released, with fewer than 4,700 documents remaining.
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The executive order on Thursday states that within 15 days, the national intelligence director and the attorney general should coordinate with other government officials to jointly present Trump with a plan to release the “the full and complete” set of records about JFK’s death.
It adds that within 45 days the same group of government officials will review records related to the assassinations of RFK and MLK and present Trump with a plan for their “full and complete release”.
The order states that the families and the US public “deserve transparency and truth”.
“It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.”
Democrat JFK was president from January 1961 until November 22, 1963, when he was shot dead while riding his motorcade through Dallas, Texas.
Accompanying him were his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nelly Connally. Governor Connally was also wounded in the attack.
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