Trump orders release of classified JFK and MLK assassination files

Releases could answer questions that continue to fuel conspiracy theories

Stars Insider

24/01/25 | StarsInsider

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On January 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. This move could help answer lingering questions about the assassinations, which took place more than 50 years ago.

JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The killing of the then-president helped fuel a climate of mistrust in the 1960s and ignited a wave of conspiracy theories. Some of those doubts resurfaced when a Secret Service agent who witnessed the assassination at close range made a potentially devastating claim in a memoir that cast doubt on whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of pulling the trigger, was acting alone.

Click through the following gallery and revisit the events leading up to, during, and after that fateful day.

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