“US President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying documents on the assassinations of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and the leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying documents on the assassinations of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and the leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: Bloomberg, decree on the White House website
Details: Trump promised to release the documents during his first term as president. But in the end he gave in to the Central Intelligence Agency’s request to keep most of the material secret.
During the last election campaign, Trump renewed the promise of declassification. In the executive order, Trump stated that declassification of this data is in the public interest.
straight language Trump: “More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Pastor Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government has not released to the public all of its records related to these events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and the truth.” .
Details: Within the next 15 days, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General are to present to Trump a plan to fully release the records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and within 45 days, those related to the assassinations of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
For reference:
- Assassination of the 35th US President John Kennedy was committed on November 22, 1963, in Dallas (Texas). Kennedy was fatally wounded by a rifle shot while riding in the presidential motorcade along Elm Street with his wife, Jacqueline.
- For ten months, the murder was investigated by a specially convened commission, which came to the conclusion that the crime was committed by a lone criminal, Lee Harvey Oswald. Subsequent official investigations confirmed that Oswald was the killer, but that some conspirators were probably behind it.
- Robert Kennedy died on June 6, 1968, of a fatal gunshot wound sustained on June 5 immediately after his California primary victory speech.
- It is still unknown who exactly fired the fatal shot at Robert Kennedy, because Serhan Serhan was officially recognized as the killer, who fired from the front, while the fatal shot was fired from behind from close range.
- Martin Luther King – a younger, outstanding fighter for human rights, was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel, where he was during a campaign in support of striking sanitation workers.
- A sniper’s bullet hit him in the head – he died in the hospital. Officially, the killer is James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty, but later tried to retract his confession, saying he had been framed. King’s death sparked mass protests and riots across the United States.