President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, former U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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The president announced that he’ll declassify any remaining files from their assassinations and went on to sign an executive order at the White House Thursday.
After an aide announced the president was signing the executive action, president Trump said, “That’s a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long for years, for decades.”
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The president promised during his first administration in 2017 that he would release the remaining JFK files.
Records revealed the files included some 3,000 documents that had never been made public and 30,000 that had been previously released with redactions, but not all of the files were made public during his first term.
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In response to the signing, Elon Musk described it as ‘Awesome’ in an X post.
