Thursday, January 23, 2025

At Long Last

 


President Trump today signs the EO to release the files of the three greatest American assassinations of the 20th century.  


From CBS News:


Trump signs executive order to release more JFK, RFK, MLK assassination files


By Stefan Becket, Kathryn Watson

January 23, 2025 / 4:00 PM EST / CBS News


“President Trump announced that he'll declassify any remaining files from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He signed an executive order at the White House Thursday.


After an aide announced the president was signing the executive action "ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.," Mr. Trump said, "That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long — for years, for decades."


The president instructed his aide to give the pen he used to sign the order to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The elder Kennedy served as U.S. attorney general, New York senator and was a Democratic presidential candidate when he was slain in 1968.”


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-files-to-be-released/


Endnotes


May take a long time before any of the thousands of documents are released.  The CIA is known to drag their feet over file releases.  But, at least the progress has started.