US President Donald Trump on Monday (March 17) announced that his administration is all set to release approximately 80,000 pages of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Trump revealed that the files are set to be made public on Tuesday (March 18).
“People have been waiting for decades for this,” Trump told reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Center in Washington. “It’s going to be very interesting.”
Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to devise a plan for releasing records linked to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
In early February, the FBI disclosed that it had discovered thousands of previously unseen documents related to JFK’s assassination.
Trump had initially signed an order in his first week in office regarding the disclosure of these records and pledged to include documents concerning the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both of whom were killed in 1968.