On Thursday afternoon, after a wait of nearly 61 years, the files on the assassination of 35th President John F. Kennedy, Jr. were declassified by President Donald Trump. “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters. The files on the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy will also be released, per Barrons.
Kennedy was shot to death in November 1963 while in a motorcade in Dallas, Tex. While on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump had vowed to release the classified documents, and on his first day in office, he told attendees at the Capitol One Arena that they would be released in “the coming days.”
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” he told those who had assembled to watch the post-inaugural presidential parade, which had been moved inside due to weather.
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” Trump said. Trump had considered releasing the files during his first term in office but expressed at the time that he had decided not to. Per the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, the documents were set were to be released by 2017.
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