1440 -The remaining classified files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be made public in the near future, following an executive order from President Donald Trump yesterday. Government documents pertaining to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will also be reviewed for eventual release.
Congress mandated in 1992 that files related to the killing of the country's 35th president be declassified by 2017. That deadline was missed, and files—many with numerous redactions—have been released in batches over the past seven years. Officials have said 97% of more than 5 million documents related to JFK's assassination have been made available to date (search archives).
The assassination has spurred numerous conspiracy theories
over the decades, in part because the motives of the shooter, Lee
Harvey Oswald, were never publicly determined. Separately, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.—Trump's nominee for health secretary—has suggested the CIA may have played a role in the deaths of his uncle and father.
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