Trump orders release of classified documents on JFK assassination
Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order for the release of classified documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas on 22 November 1963.
Documents on the assassination have already been released in recent years. During the election campaign, Trump promised to release all documents on JFK's assassination, the subject of a lot of conspiracy theories. Trump also wanted to do this in his first term, but then he backed down after appeals from the CIA and the FBI.
The new executive order also includes the release of secret documents on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's younger brother, and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
‘Many people have waited years, decades for this,’ Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House. ‘Everything will be revealed.’
After signing, he handed the pen he had used to sign the order to an aide: ‘Give these to RFK Jr.’, referring to JFK's nephew and the current president's candidate to be secretary of health and social services.
RFK Jr. himself is convinced of a plot, with CIA interference, to assassinate his uncle. The investigation into the murder by the Warren Commission concluded that the killing was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
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