What to know about Trump's order to declassify files on JFK, MLK, RFK assassinations - The Boston Globe

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61% : Thousands of FBI and CIA records were released in July 2017, and Trump during his first term "accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 and 2018, but ordered the continued re-evaluation of those remaining redactions," Thursday's order said.
52% : "Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King and the leader of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, wrote on X."For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years," she wrote.
50% : Here's an overview of the executive order that paves the way for the full disclosure of records that have remained off limits to researchers and the American public since the three men were killed during the 1960s.Trump, who survived two assassination attempts during the tumultuous 2024 campaign, ordered intelligence officials to present a plan within 15 days for the "full and complete release" of records on the assassination of JFK, who was shot to death in Dallas in November 1963.
20% : "Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of JFK, accused Trump of using his grandfather's murder as a 'political prop.'"JFK conspiracy theories -- The truth is alot [sic] sadder than the myth -- a tragedy that didn't need to happen," Schlossberg wrote.

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