The Memphis NAACP and SCLC had a mix of hope and skepticism regarding President Trump's executive order to declassify records in major assassination cases.
Buried under layers of secrecy and red tape, the full findings related to the homicides of President John F. Kennedy, his brother and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump’s decision to release these files comes in the wake of strong advocacy from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of RFK, who has long pushed for the declassification of documents related to his uncle’s assassination.
Almost all will pass with slim margins, but one notable selection is languishing: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The scion of the Democratic political dynastic family and namesake of former Attorney ...
Donald Trump has directed the declassification of all remaining government records related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
As the Rolling Stones lyric goes, the answer to “who killed the Kennedys” was “after all…you and me”. In Don DeLillo’s novel Libra, John F Kennedy’s assassination emerged from a CIA plot. And in the Ultimate Marvel world,
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Under the order, intelligence officials must present a plan within 15 days for the “full and complete release” of records on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who was shot to death in Dallas in November 1963.
During his first term, Trump said he’d release all remaining records on JFK’s assassination, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades, but he ended up holding some back due to potential harm to national security.
In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”
Federal documents relating to several high-profile assassinations during the 1960s will become fully available to the public this year after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered their release.