US President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of the last secret files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.
Trump signed an executive order that will also release documents on the 1960s assassinations of JFK’s younger brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr.
“That’s big one, huh? A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday,
“Everything will be revealed.”
After signing the order, Trump passed the pen he used to an aide, saying “Give that to RFK Jnr,” JFK’s nephew and the current president’s nominee to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.