U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration will release approximately 80,000 pages of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The long-awaited files are set to be made public on Tuesday.
“People have been waiting for decades for this,” Trump told Reuters during a visit to the Kennedy Center in Washington. “It’s going to be very interesting.”
Executive order mandates disclosure of assassination records
Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to present a plan for releasing records concerning the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in early February that it had discovered thousands of additional documents related to Kennedy’s assassination, further fueling public interest in their contents.
Expanding transparency on historical assassinations
Trump has long advocated for greater transparency regarding high-profile assassinations in American history. During his first week in office, he signed an order to declassify documents about JFK’s assassination, as well as records related to the killings of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both of whom were assassinated in 1968.
The impending release of these documents marks a significant step in uncovering previously undisclosed details surrounding these pivotal events in U.S. history.
