President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declassifying records tied to three of the most infamous assassinations in the history of the United States.
Trump ordered files concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. to be declassified.
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The order will now require the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to coordinate with the assistant to the president for national security Affairs and Trump’s legal counsel to present a plan to release the records within 15 days.
“A lot of people are waiting for this for a long, long time, for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Read the Executive Order here
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