On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying documents on the assassination of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. the federal government has not made all of its records related to these events public. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,” the text of the decree reads.
The document emphasizes that within the next 15 days, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General must submit to Trump a plan to fully disclose records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and within 45 days – those related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
