US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declassifying documents on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. According to a White House statement, the order ends 60 years of conspiracy theories and requires the Director of National Intelligence to submit within 15 days a plan for “full and complete disclosure” of files related to the JFK assassination and within 45 days a plan to disclose documents related to the other two assassinations.
This executive order establishes a policy that more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims’ families and the American people deserve to know the truth. Specifically, it provides the Director of National Intelligence and other appropriate officials with a plan for full and complete disclosure of all John F. Kennedy assassination records within 15 days, immediate review of records relating to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. within 45 days, and full and complete disclosure of all records relating to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy. direct them to submit to the public a plan for their release,” reads part of the White House statement.
According to the White House, President Trump ordered agencies to disclose more information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy back during his first term, and this order will ensure that this work is completed. According to the White House, the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 requires that all records related to the assassination be released within 25 years unless the president certifies that “there is demonstrable harm to military defense, intelligence, law enforcement, or diplomatic relations and such identifiable harm is so significant that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure. ”In certifications in October 2017 and April 2018, President Trump directed agencies to review excessive However, former President Joe Biden delayed disclosure in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In this order, President Trump determined that continued nondisclosure of John F. Kennedy’s records was contrary to the public interest and that time had long since passed. He has also concluded that it is in the public interest to release the assassination records of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.”, the White House said in a statement.
During his campaign, Trump promised he would release the assassination records to tell Americans the truth. When I return to the White House, I will declassify and de-classify documents related to the Kennedy assassination, and now, 60 years later, it’s time for the American people to know the truth!
The circumstances of JFK’s assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 have haunted Americans for decades. According to an article on Al Jazeera, in a 2023 Gallup poll, 65% of Americans said they did not believe the Warren Commission’s findings that Lee Harvey Oswald, the U.S. Marine veteran arrested for JFK’s death, killed the president alone.
Twenty percent of respondents believe Oswald colluded with the U.S. government, and 16 percent believe Oswald colluded with the CIA. After receiving the information, Al Jazeera further reported that in an interview in 2023, President Trump’s nominee for HHS Secretary and Robert F. Kennedy’s son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that there is “overwhelming” evidence that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s assassination and that the intelligence community was involved in his father’s death.
He stated that there is “very compelling” but “circumstantial” evidence that the
