President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order related to the declassification of files on the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., an aide to Trump said.
Text from the order calls the release "long overdue."
"I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue. And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government's possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest."
© 2025 Thomson/Reuters. All rights reserved.