The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a decree on Thursday to decrsnate the archives about the murders in the 1960s of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, as well as that of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King King King Jr.
“Many people have waited for this for years, for decades,” Trump told reporters while signing the presidential decree in the Oval Office of the White House.
“Everything will be revealed,” he added.
After the firm, Trump passed the pen that used an assistant, saying to “give it to RFK JR,” referring to Robert F. Kennedy JR, his candidate to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The national archives have published tens of thousands of documents in recent years related to the murder of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, but have retained thousands, claiming concern for national security.
In the last publication, in December 2022, he said that 97% of Kennedy’s records, of a total of around five million pages, had already been made public.
The Warren Commission investigated the murder of the charismatic 46 -year -old president determined that he was committed by a ex -marine ex -Marines, Lee Harvey Oswald, and who acted alone.
But he has not managed to turn off the theories of conspiracy, which speculate with a plot. The slow dissemination of government archives has fed them.
Democratic president Joe Biden said in December 2022 that a “limited” number of documents would still be published at the request of “agencies” that he has not specified.
In the past, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations have been requested.
Thousands of documents related to Kennedy’s murder of the national archives were published during Trump’s first mandate, but he also held some for national security reasons.
– Conspiracy theories –
Kennedy experts estimate that the documents without dissemination probably do not contain shocking revelations or end the unbridled conspiracy theories about the murder of the 35th president of the United States.
Oswald was shot dead two days after killing Kennedy by an owner of a nightclub, Jack Ruby, during a transfer of prisoners to jail.
Hundreds of books and films, such as Oliver Stone from 1991 “JFK”, have fed conspiracies. They point their accusing finger against the rivals of the Cold War, the Soviet Union or Cuba, the Mafia and even the Vice President of Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.
President Kennedy’s younger brother, Robert, a former general -general, was killed in June 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian born in Palestine, was sentenced by life cadre.
Meanwhile, Martin Luther King Jr was killed in April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
James Earl Ray was convicted of death and died in prison in 1998, but King’s children have expressed doubts in the past about Ray was the murderer.