Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of the American government archives on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, of his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, as well as the leader in civil rights Martin Luther King Jr the same year.
“Many people have been waiting for this for years, decades,” the American president’s freshly invested in the press told the press to sign the decree in the White House Oval Office. “Everything will be revealed”.
He then gave instruction to his advisor to hand over the felt used to affix his initials to Robert Kennedy Jr, son of Robert F. Kennedy, whom he chose as Minister of Health.
Robert Kennedy Jr reported in the past “overwhelming evidence of the CIA involvement”, the American intelligence agency, in the assassination of its uncle JFK. He also mentioned “very convincing” clues of the supposed involvement of the same CIA in that of his father.
More than 50 years after the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, “their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to ultimately make public all the archives linked to these assassinations without delay, ”according to the decree.
At the end of November, after his election, Donald Trump had repeated his campaign promise to make public the latest files classified “top secret” in the national archives concerning the assassination of “JFK”.
The official commission of inquiry into this assassination concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former marine commando who had lived in the Soviet Union, had acted alone. But the assassination of President Kennedy has raised countless speculations until today.
In December 2022, the national archives released more than 13,000 documents. But Joe Bid’s White House had blocked the publication of thousands of others, invoking concerns about national security.
-According to the national archives, currently 99 % of the five million pages of the file are accessible to all.
John Fizgerald Kennedy’s brother Robert Francis Kennedy was his Minister of Justice.
He was murdered in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, when he was in good position to win the Democratic primaries for the presidential election. The Democratic senator had just completed a speech at the Ambassador hotel when he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. This Palestinian emigrated to the United States is serving a perpetuity sentence for this crime.
Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by a white segregationist, James Earl Ray, on the balcony of a motel from Memphis (south), where he had come to support scales on strike.
However, his children have in the past expressed doubts about Ray’s guilt, who died in prison in 1998.
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