Decades after the late US President John F. Kennedy (JFK), civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and JFK’s brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in 1963 and 1968, respectively, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to release all information related to the murders in an executive order on January 23.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events,” the order read.
“Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.
“It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.
“I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.”
Mystery behind all three deaths have plagued society in the years since, with almost 65 per cent of Americans believing that these assassinations — particularly JFK’s — involved a conspiracy element and that JFK’s attacker, Lee Harvey Oswald, didn’t work alone.
However, confusion on when these files will be released are not confirmed yet.
When will the JFK, MLK and RFK assassination files be released to the public?
In Trump’s executive order, it states that the attorney general and the director of national intelligence must “present a plan within the next 15 days” for releasing the documents related to JFK, while MLK and RFK’s documents are given “45 days.”
However, that doesn’t automatically mean that the public will see the files in the next few weeks.
Even if the assassination files are released, it will take a hell of a long time for the public to gain access.
In an interview with ABC News, US attorney Larry Schnapf stated that “if they’re going to do a substantive review, then it’s going to be a while before the records are released.”
Schnapf previously sued the US government to release the JFK assassination files.
Robert F Kennedy Jr., the son of RFK and Trump’s health secretary nominee, welcomed the news of the documents’ release.
“I think it’s a great move because they need to have more transparency in our government and he’s keeping his promise to have the government tell the truth to the American people about everything,” RFK Jr. told reporters.
“The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises — the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID — that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,” he wrote in a Tweet.
RFK Jr.’s tweet. (Source: X)
For the meantime, all us normal folks can do at this time is wait.
And hey, maybe call up your conspiracy-obsessed uncle — we’re sure he’ll be having a field day with this news.
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