DALLAS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump ordered on Thursday the release of thousands of secret government documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, about which there have been conspiracy theories for decades.
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The executive order signed by Trump also aims to declassify the remaining federal records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. It is part of a series of decrees that Trump has quickly announced in the first week of his second term.
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In statements to the journalists, the president said: "everything will be made public."
During his campaign for re-election, Trump had promised to make public the latest batches of still-secret documents about the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, which has captivated people's attention for decades. Trump made a similar promise during his first term, but ultimately yielded to appeals from the CIA and FBI to keep some documents secret.
Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of Kennedy, to be the Secretary of Health in his new government. Kennedy's father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 while trying to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy Jr. has said that he is not convinced that a single armed man was solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President Kennedy.
The order instructs the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Justice to develop a plan within 15 days to release the remaining records of John F. Kennedy, and within 45 days for the other two cases. It was not clear when the records will actually be made public.
Trump handed the pen he used to sign the decree to an assistant and ordered that it be given to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Only a few thousand out of the millions of government records related to the assassination of President Kennedy have not been fully declassified. And although many people who have studied what has been released so far say that the public should not expect shocking revelations, there is still intense interest in the details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.
"There is always the possibility that something will slip that would be the small tip of a much larger iceberg that would be revealing," said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of the book "The Kennedy Half-Century."
"That's what researchers are looking for. The chances are that you won't find that, but it's possible that it's there," he added.
Kennedy was fatally wounded in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed in front of the Texas School Book Depository. Twenty-four-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been hiding on the sixth floor of that building. Two days after Kennedy was killed, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer.
The order states that, although no act of Congress requests the publication of information about the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy or King, making those government records public is also in the public interest.
King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated two months apart in 1968.
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