On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of government documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, his brother Robert Kennedy in 1968, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in the same year, as reported by Tengrinews.kz citing "Voice of America."
"Everything will be revealed," Trump stated to reporters while signing the order in the Oval Office of the White House.
At the end of November, following his election victory, Trump reiterated his campaign promise to release the final documents related to the assassination of the 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which are classified as "top secret." These documents are stored in the National Archives.
The official commission that investigated John F. Kennedy's assassination concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who had lived in the Soviet Union for a time, acted alone. However, the assassination of President Kennedy continues to spark numerous speculations.
In December 2022, the National Archives released over 13,000 documents related to John F. Kennedy's assassination. However, the Joe Biden administration blocked the release of several thousand additional documents, citing national security concerns.
John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert Francis, served as the U.S. Attorney General. He was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, while he was the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries. The senator was shot by a Palestinian immigrant after delivering a speech at the Ambassador Hotel.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was killed on April 4, 1968, by a white segregationist in Memphis, where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers.