John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas “officially” by Lee Harvey Oswald alone.
AFP
Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of US government records on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. the same year.
“Many people have been waiting for this for years, decades,” the newly inaugurated American president told the press when signing the decree in the Oval Office of the White House. “All will be revealed.”
He then instructed his advisor to give the marker used to initial it to Robert Kennedy Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy, whom he chose as Minister of Health.
“Transparency and truth”
Robert Kennedy Jr has in the past reported “overwhelming evidence of the involvement of the CIA”, the American intelligence agency, in the assassination of his uncle JFK. He also mentioned “very convincing” indications 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 the truth. It is in the national interest to finally make public all records related to these assassinations without delay,” according to the decree.
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 assassination of “JFK”.
-99% of the approximately five million pages of the file accessible to all
The official commission of inquiry into the 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.
As of December 2022, the National Archives made more than 13,000 documents public. But Joe Biden’s White House had blocked the publication of thousands more, citing concerns about national security. According to the National Archives, currently 99% of the approximately five million pages in the file are accessible to everyone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s brother, Robert Francis Kennedy, served as his Minister of Justice.
Doubts about the guilt of Martin Luther King’s assassin
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 and killed by Sirhan Sirhan. This Palestinian emigrated to the United States is serving a life sentence for this crime.
Martin Luther King, for his part, was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by a white segregationist, James Earl Ray, on the balcony of a Memphis motel (south), where he had come to support striking garbage collectors.
His children, however, have in the past expressed doubts about the guilt of Ray, who died in prison in 1998.
(afp/rk)
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