President Donald Trump has pledged to declassify all documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump made the announcement at a rally at the Capitol One Arena in Washington, D.C., Sunday. Trump nominated Robert Kennedy’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.
“As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents,” Trump said. “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. and other topics of great public interest. It’s all going to be released, Uncle Sam.”
JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, while King and Kennedy were assassinated months apart in 1968.
Trump made a similar promise when he was elected during his first term and did release documents relate to JFK’s assassination but still kept a significant amount of documents under wraps, citing national security concerns and pressure from the CIA and FBI.
RFK Jr. has claimed the CIA was behind his uncle’s assassination and that his father was killed by multiple gunmen.
Over 95% of the CIA’s records pertaining to the JFK assassination have been released, CNN reported.
Information from Reuters was used in this report.
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