Documents Released by Trump’s Order
Files on Former Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. to Be Disclosed Soon
The U.S. government, following the directive of President Donald Trump, fully released more than 30,000 pages of previously undisclosed documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on the 18th (local time).
Kennedy Assassination Classified Documents Released
The U.S. National Archives made previously unreleased records related to the Kennedy assassination available for public viewing starting that day at the National Archives facility in Maryland near Washington, D.C.
Additionally, some digitized documents, including handwritten records of testimonies heard by the Warren Commission in 1964, which investigated the assassination, were posted on the National Archives website that day. These documents cover a variety of topics, from Lee Harvey Oswald’s trip to Finland to a $210 rent notice for a CIA safe house in Maryland, and the funding of covert operations.
However, it remains uncertain whether the release of these documents will provide new information clarifying lingering questions among Americans, such as whether JFK’s assassin acted alone.
Earlier, on January 23, President Trump ordered the release of classified materials related to the JFK assassination through an executive order.
President Kennedy was fatally shot by Marine veteran Oswald on November 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas, alongside his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald during his transfer to jail, sparking various conspiracy theories.
In 2023, the U.S. National Archives announced that after reviewing classified documents related to the Kennedy assassination, 99% of the total 6 million pages of records had already been made public.
However, following President Trump’s executive order, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that it had discovered 2,400 new records related to the case.
Along with this, government classified documents related to two other prominent figures assassinated in the 1960s?former Senator Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), father of Robert Kennedy Jr., and civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.?are also expected to be sequentially released under President Trump’s January executive order.
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