The Daily Populous Friday January 24th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by cbsnews.com and submitted by duvethan100

President Trump announced that he'll declassify any remaining files from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He signed an executive order at the White House Thursday.

After an aide announced the president was signing the executive action "ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Reverend Martin Luthern King Jr.," Mr. Trump said, "That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long — for years, for decades."

The president instructed his aide to give the pen he used to sign the order to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Trump's nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The elder Kennedy served as U.S. attorney general, New York senator and was a Democratic presidential candidate when he was slain in 1968.

Mr. Trump is ordering the director of national intelligence and attorney general — neither official has been confirmed yet — to spend the next 15 days coming up with a plan to release the JFK files. Then, they have 45 days to come up with plans to release all the RFK and MLK files.

In a statement provided to CBS News Thursday evening, the FBI said it is "complying" with the executive order that "requires the review within 15 days of 'records related to' the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and within 45 days related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

The FBI added the order "also requires designated agencies to submit a plan to the White House for 'the full and complete release of these records.' The FBI is identifying records responsive to the EO and will work with the Department of Justice and ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) respectively."

After a release of some of the JFK files in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages in its collection related to the assassination were public.

The president promised during his first administration in 2017 that he would release the remaining JFK files. That included some 3,000 documents that had never been made public and 30,000 that had been previously released with redactions, but not all of the files were made public during his first term.

In 1992, Congress mandated that all assassination documents were to be released within 25 years.

titanfan694 on January 23rd, 2025 at 21:34 UTC »

Where are the Epstein files at Donald

thefugue on January 23rd, 2025 at 21:23 UTC »

Nobody shot JFK.

His head just did that.

AudibleNod on January 23rd, 2025 at 21:17 UTC »

RFK Jr really, really wanted this one. Trump opened some JFK files in his first term. As I remember, nothing was super fantastic. The files about the Soviets asking each other whether they had a hand in it was interesting.