Trump Signs Order To Declassify Remaining Files On JFK, RFK And MLK Assassinations, Promising Transparency

OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
2:12pm – Thursday, January 23, 2025

All documents left behind from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. are classified, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. It will be canceled.

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The executive order was signed at the White House on Thursday.

Following an aide's announcement regarding how the president signed an executive order “ordering the declassification of files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.” President Trump added: “That's big, isn't it? A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, even decades.”

President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was given the pen the president used to sign executive orders by an aide. .

Before his assassination in 1968, Kennedy was a Democrat running for president, attorney general, and New York senator.

The National Archives and Records Administration noted that 97% of its roughly 5 million-page collection on the assassination has already been released in the 2022 release of some of the JFK files, but not all.