Trump Orders Release of JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassination Files

Today, in keeping with yet another campaign promise, President Donald Trump announced his plans for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Marxist “civil rights leader” Martin Luther King. ordered the declassification and release of government files;

Trump declassified several files during his first term, and some were released in redactions in 2021.

Now, Trump said in his declassification order that the public would see all files.

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Noting that the 1992 JFK Files Act required their release in 2017, Trump redacted certain documents in line with the law's mandate to withhold tax from documents if executive agencies release them. He said he was allowed to do so. intelligence law enforcement facility.

Trump authorized some edits.

Similarly, Trump said his predecessor, President Joe Biden, released a three-year certification that “gives government agencies additional time to review records and withhold information from public disclosure.” Ta.

Now, wait until all the JFK files are finished, according to Trump, he also included the RFK and King files.

I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest, and that the release of these records is long overdue. did. And although no act of Congress directs the release of information about the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. We decided that the release of all records would be announced. Among those assassinations are also in the public interest.

Trump ordered the attorney general, national security adviser, director of national intelligence, and the president's lawyers to present a plan to release the JFK files within 15 days. Similar plans must be presented for RFK and King files within 45 days.

The plan must be for “full and complete release of records.”

In August, Trump, who had promised to release the JFK files in June, vowed to release them again after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, endorsed him. Ta.

“When I return to the White House, I will declassify and seal all JFK assassination related documents. It's been 60 years since the American people knew the truth!” Trump wrote on the Society of Truth.

In 2021, the government released the JFK Files. This revealed nothing new that sheds light on the supposed plot to assassinate the 35th president.

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As The New American reported at the time, conspiracy theories abound regarding Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963. The real culprits include the mob, the Israelis, the CIA, and even JFK's successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson. A former aide to President Richard Nixon claimed that Nixon knew and said that LBJ set up the hit.

In 2007, the late Vincent Burgiosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and his family for the Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, published the Recovered History, a 1,600-page account of all the theories.

Burgiosi concluded that Oswald acted alone.

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Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinated RFK on June 6, 1968, the night he won the California Democratic primary. Kennedy is likely to face Nixon in the general election. Sirhan murdered Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As with the JFK assassination, conspiracy theories regarding RFK's murder have abounded since then.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believed that the CIA killed his uncle for resisting the war in Vietnam, calling the evidence that the spy agency was involved in his father's assassination “compelling but circumstantial.” ”. As with the assassination of JFK, theories regarding the murder of RFK abound. They include claims that a second gunman killed Kennedy and that Sirhan was the Manchurian Candidate programmed to kill the candidate.

King's relatives believe his assassin, James Earl Ray, was innocent. Career criminal Ray was assigned to murder and went to prison, but the King family believes the FBI assassinated him. In 1993, National Press Books published Ray's book that killed Martin Luther King.

They believe it came from Lloyd Jowers, a restaurateur who claimed that Ray did not kill King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

Another suspicion is that Ray's lawyer, William Pepper, wrote a book about King's assassination. He claimed that special forces operatives had beaten Wang and promoted the Manchurian Candidate theory about RFK's murder.