Trump, who released some of the documents during his first term, said in the run-up to the 2024 election he would “declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents.”

President Trump said he'll declassify any remaining files from John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassinations.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday to release files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Trump ordered that the assassination files of JFK, RFK, and MLK be declassified, saying "the American people deserve the truth." Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson and RFK's nephew, slammed the decision.

Federal documents relating to several high-profile assassinations during the 1960s will become fully available to the public this year after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered their release.

The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to declassify remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

In this Order, President Trump finds that continued withholding of the John F. Kennedy records is not in the public interest and is long overdue. He also concludes that releasing the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination records is in the public interest.

When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public attention and raised intrigue.