Trump Orders Declassification of 'All Records' Related to Kennedy, MLK Assassinations

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52% : Trump himself had accepted some redactions to those records in 2017 and 2018, he noted, but he had ordered an ongoing review of the redactions themselves.
36% : President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the federal government to release classified records on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., directing recordkeepers to reveal the long-secret files as a matter of "public interest.
36% : Though Congress has not similarly mandated the release of records regarding the killings of King and the younger Kennedy, "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," Trump said.
35% : "Trump in his executive order said that though more than half a century has elapsed since the assassinations of the historical American figures -- President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 -- the federal government still "has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.
30% : "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," Trump said.
25% : "Trump noted that the federal President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 ordered that all records related to the president's murder be released by Oct. 26, 2017.

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