President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify any remaining files from the investigation into President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. After a release of some of the files in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages in its collection related to the JFK assassination were public.
Trump is directing the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General, officials have yet to be shown, to spend the next 15 days getting a plan to the JFK files.
Mr. Trump’s order also will declassify more records on the 1968 assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and former senator and attorney general Robert F. Kennedy. The DNI and attorney general will have 45 days to come up with plans to release the RFK and MLK files.
Kennedy shunned while crossing Dallas in his procession in November. 22 1963, at the age of 46.
An investigation through the leader to pass judgment on Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former activist and marine communist who had lived in the Soviet Union, acted alone in the Kennedy shooting, but the investigation was widely criticized through academics and historians for nearly 60 years since the assassination.
Oswald was shot and killed in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters two days after Kennedy’s death, further fueling conspiracy theories about whether he was solely responsible.
White House officials have not yet said what or how many JFK assassination files will be released. The National Archives released a deal of 13,173 documents that have been revealed to his murder in 2022, during a time after then-President Biden issued an executive order authorizing his release. But its management has kept thousands of other sensitive records under the wrappings.
He declared a rally in Washington, D. C. , on the eve of his inauguration that he would make public records to inform a recovery of “transparency and duty to government. ”
He said his administration would “reverse the overclassification of government documents, 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.”
Under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, the government was required to release all documents related to the assassination by October 2017, unless doing so would harm national security or intelligence sources, or violate certain privacy protections. Trump released thousands of documents over the course of his first term but withheld others on national security grounds.
In October 2021, Biden launched only approximately 1,500 documents while delaying the release of other delicate files until December 15, 2022, saying that more and more review was needed to “protect the identifiable damage to the defense of the army, Intelligence operations, the application of the law or the application of the law or the application of the law the conduct of foreign relations. “
The time to leave or versions has still been announced.
The order stipulates that the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General have 15 days to provide a plan to the President “for all publication and full release of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy”, however, the genuine genuine release date is specified.