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Trump Orders Declassification of Files on JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassinations
Charlie Kirk Staff
01/24/2025
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the release of classified documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. This move fulfills a long-standing campaign pledge and aims to address decades of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the killings.
“Everything will be revealed,” Trump stated as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
During his first term, Trump had promised to release all files concerning John F. Kennedy’s assassination but withheld hundreds of records at the request of the CIA and FBI, citing national security concerns. Lee Harvey Oswald, the primary suspect in JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963, was killed two days later by Jack Ruby. Trump’s 2023 order acknowledges that continuing to withhold these files is not “consistent with the public interest,” emphasizing that their release is long overdue.
The executive order also includes previously classified documents on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., despite no congressional mandate requiring their release. “I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest,” the order states.
The King family, in a statement provided to Fox News, expressed their hope to review the files before their public release, describing the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as a deeply personal loss endured over 56 years.
U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., commended the declassification of the JFK files, asserting, “Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long. Americans deserve to know the truth, whether it makes the government look good or not.”
Trump’s commitment to expedite the release of documents related to the deaths of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. raises questions about the timeline for these disclosures. Robert F. Kennedy, who was a Democratic presidential candidate, was assassinated on June 5, 1968, by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
