The official commission of inquiry concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald had assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But his death has raised countless speculations until today.
Published on 23/01/2025 23:24
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Donald Trump ordered, Thursday, January 23, the declassification of American government archives on the assassinations of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (nicknamed “JFK”) in 1963, his brother Robert Kennedy in 1968, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr the same year. “All will be revealed”declared the American president to the press when signing the decree at the White House.
At the end of November, after his election, Donald Trump repeated his campaign promise to make public the last files classified “top secret” in the National Archives concerning the JFK assassination. The official commission of inquiry 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.
-JFK's brother, Robert Francis Kennedy, served as his Justice Minister. He was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, when he was well positioned to win the Democratic presidential primary. The Democratic senator had just finished a speech at the Ambassador Hotel when he was shot dead by a Palestinian emigrant to the United States.
The leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by a white segregationist on the balcony of a Memphis motel (south), where he had come to support striking garbage collectors.
As of December 2022, the National Archives made more than 13,000 documents public. But Joe Biden's White House blocked the release of thousands more, citing national security concerns.
