President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the remaining archives of the research on the murder of President John F. Kennedy. After one of some files in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the approximately five million pages in their collection similar to JFK’s murder was public.
Mr. 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 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 traveling in his procession in Dallas on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46.
An investigation through the President of the Supreme Court Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former communist sailor and activist who had lived in the Soviet Union, acted in Kennedy’s filming, however, the investigation has been widely criticized through academics and historians for about 60 years. From the murder.
Oswald shot and killed at the Dallas Police basement two days after Kennedy’s death, additional fuel conspiracy theories on whether it is only responsible.
White House officials have not yet said what or how many JFK murder files will be launched. The national archives published a treatment of 13,173 documents that have been revealed to their murder in the last 2022, for a while after the then President Biden issued an executive order that authorized that he authorized his release. But its management has maintained thousands of other delicate records under the wrapping.
He said at a rally in Washington, D.C., on the eve of his inauguration that he would make the files public in order to signal a restoration of “transparency and accountability to government.”
He declared that his management “would face the superposition of government documents, and in the next few days, we will make public the remaining archives regarding the murders of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, JR and other issues of a wonderful public interest.
According to President John F. Kennedy Assassination, record collection records of 1992, the government has been forced to publish all documents similar to murder until October 2017, unless it damages the resources of national security or information, or violate safe privacy protections. Trump published thousands of documents his first term, but he had others for national security reasons.
In October 2021, Biden launched only 1,500 more documents while delaying the publication of other delicate files until December 15, 2022, saying that more and more mandatory review to “protect itself to identifiable damage to military defense, Intelligence, police, police or foreign relations behavior.
The timing of the release or releases has yet to be 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 the entire publication and complete publication of the archives related to the murder of President John F. Kennedy”, however, the date Genuine genuine launch is specified.