President-elect Trump pledged on Sunday that he would release long-secret government records on the dossier assassinations of john kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump made the pledge Addressing a crowd during a victory march at Washington, D.C.'s 20,000-seat Capital One Arena, he told supporters this was the beginning of an effort to increase government transparency.
“As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also work to reverse the excessive secrecy of government documents,” Trump said.
He continued: “In the coming days, we will announce the remaining records related to the assassination of President John Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” “Everything will be released.”
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the 60th Presidential Inauguration on Sunday, January 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
During his first term, Trump promised to release all files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed amount of material remains secret more than six decades after Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records. Trump said at the time that the potential harm to US national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs was “so serious that it outweighs the public interest in immediate detection.”
President John Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. (Getty, file)
In December 2022, President Biden was released A trove of documents related to the assassination, although Biden, as Trump has previously said, said some of the documents were withheld due to national security concerns.
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Trump promised to also release outstanding documents related to the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr And former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, brother of former President John F. Kennedy, leaves questions about how the president-elect could expedite the releases.
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. (Getty Images, file)
King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated in 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy was killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. (AP photo, file)
Under the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, remaining files related to King will not be released until 2027.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
