CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump Thursday signed an executive order declassifying files related to the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
According to FOX News, the president “had promised to release the previously classified documents during his 2024 campaign after decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings.”
“That’s a big one,” Trump remarked from the Oval Office as he uncapped his pen to sign the order at the Resolute desk. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades.”
“And everything will be revealed,” the president said as he applied his signature.
He then instructed his staffer to give the pen he had used to sign the order to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is the son of the late Sen. Kennedy and nephew of the late President Kennedy. The cabinet nominee was 14 and nine years old respectively when his father and uncle were shot and killed.
President Trump Orders Historic Transparency: JFK, RFK, and MLK Files to be Declassified
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 23, 2025
“This is a big one. A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.” –President Trump pic.twitter.com/iYfF7huHj9
CBS New noted that Trump “is ordering the director of national intelligence and attorney general — neither official has been confirmed yet — to spend the next 15 days coming up with a plan to release” the files pertaining to President Kennedy. “Then, they have 45 days to come up with plans to release all” of the files related to Sen. Kennedy and Dr. King.
Trump has nominated former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to be the U.S. Attorney General – the leader of the Department of Justice (DOJ) – in his second administration.
As both nominations are currently pending confirmation in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, the DNI and DOJ are for now being led by officials serving in an acting capacity.