Donald Trump has made good on one of his election promises and moved to declassify the files pertaining to the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The president signed an executive order, giving staff 45 days to prepare the release.
"That's a big one, huh?" Trump said before signing. "A lot of people waiting for this for years — for decades. Everything will be revealed!"
After signing the document, the president ordered staff to give the pen he used to Robert F. Kennedy's son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
'More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events," the executive order read, per the Daily Mail.
"Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth," it continued. "It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay."
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas as his motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza and died shortly after arriving at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated five years later on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, but soon pronounced dead. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated two months and one day later by Sirhan Sirhan. He succumbed to his injuries at PIH Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles the following day.
Since then, many have sought more information about their deaths, and while millions of pages from government files have been released, thousands still remain tightly guarded. Whether Trump's order will result in their full declassification remains to be seen.