Trump declassified documents about the Kennedy assassination

US President Donald Trump signed a decree declassifying documents relating to the assassination of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy in 1963 and the assassination of black rights activist in the United States Martin Luther King in 1968, follows from the broadcast of the signing.

"This is a big event, many have been waiting for it for years, decades. And everything will be revealed," Trump said after signing the relevant decree.

Data on the assassination of John F. Kennedy's brother Senator and politician Robert Kennedy in 1968 will also be declassified. His son Robert Kennedy Jr. is an associate of Trump.

Despite the fact that, according to US law, the data on the assassination of John F. Kennedy should have been declassified in full by 2017, both Trump and the previous US President Joe Biden were given additional time by American intelligence to assess whether the declassification of the remaining data could harm the interests and international relations of the United States, the published the decree.

"I have now decided that the continued editing and concealment of information from the records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not in the public interest, and the publication of these records has long been necessary. And although no law of Congress prescribes the publication of information relating to the murders of Senator Robert F. I have determined that the publication of all records in the possession of the federal government relating to each of these murders is also in the public interest," said Trump in the decree.

US government agencies have 15 days from the date of signing the decree to provide the president with a plan for the complete declassification of data on the assassination of the 35th president and 45 days to review the data and provide a plan for the publication of documents on the assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy.