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President-elect Trump vowed Sunday that helium would merchandise long-classified authorities records connected the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump made the pledge to a assemblage during his Victory Rally astatine Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena, which has a 20,000-seat capacity, telling supporters it is the opening of an effort to summation authorities transparency.
"As the archetypal measurement toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we volition besides reverse the over-classification of authorities documents," Trump said.
"And successful the coming days, we are going to marque nationalist remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his member Robert Kennedy, arsenic good arsenic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," helium continued. "It's each going to beryllium released."
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks astatine a rally up of the 60th Presidential Inauguration connected Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
During his archetypal administration, Trump had promised to merchandise each the files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed magnitude of worldly remains nether wraps much than six decades aft Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, successful Dallas, Texas.
After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the merchandise of hundreds of records. Trump said astatine the clip the imaginable harm to U.S. nationalist security, instrumentality enforcement oregon overseas affairs is "of specified gravity that it outweighs the nationalist involvement successful contiguous disclosure."
President John F. Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, successful Dallas, Texas. (Getty, File)
In December 2022, President Biden released a trove of documents relating to the assassination, though Biden, similar Trump had previously, said that immoderate documents were withheld implicit nationalist information concerns.
Trump’s committedness to besides merchandise outstanding documents related to civilian rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and erstwhile U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, member of erstwhile President John F. Kennedy, leaves questions arsenic to however the president-elect volition velocity up the releases.
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed successful Memphis, Tennessee, connected April 4, 1968. (Getty Images, File)
King and Robert F. Kennedy were some assassinated successful 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy was killed astatine the Ambassador Hotel successful Los Angeles connected June 5, 1968. (AP Photo, File)
Under the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, the remaining files pertaining to King are not owed for merchandise until 2027.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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