One of the numerous implementing regulations that President Trump signed in office in his first week is a guideline that is of particular interest to conspiracy theorists: On Thursday, Trump instructed the Federal Government, “the president for the full and complete publication of records to be presented. ”In connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy” and the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“It’s a big deal, isn’t it? Many people have been waiting for a long time – for years, for decades, ”said the president when signing the order. You can read that You can find the complete executive order here.
How to see the approved assassination documents on JFK, RFK and MLK
If you hope that Trump’s arrangement will lead to the Feds uploading tons of piquant files this afternoon, you will be disappointed: we are still talking about the federal government here. Instead of Insta-Encovers, the implementation regulation gives the director of the National Secret Service and the Attorney General for 15 days to review records in connection with the murder of JFK, 45 days for records related to MLK and RFK, and then present the “plan” President for the “complete and complete publication of these records”.
All new JFK files that are published are likely to be added to this JFK archive, administered by the National Security AgencyWhere they bring almost 5 million pages together with records in connection with the murder of JFKs, which are already open to the public. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, 97 % of the government documents in connection with the murder of JFKS are already public.
It remains to be seen whether the President will make complete, non -edited files and documents accessible to the public in connection with the attacks. Nothing prevents Trump from looking at the plan, saying “fantastic work” and doing nothing.
It is at the President’s discretion to weigh the public interest in disclosure against information that would harm the secret service or military operations, law enforcement or outdoor relationships. How Trump will assess these options is unknown, although it says in the regulation that “all records in possession of the Federal Government are also in the public interest”.
Hasn’t that already happened?
If this message triggers a vages déjà vu feeling for you, this is understandable. Already in 2017, while Trump’s first term as president, the president announced that he would open the JFK files:
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Since then, new information about the murder of JFK has been published, but there are still thousands of documents that are sealed and countless blackening that could be removed from publicly accessible documents.
The real bombing may not be about Kennedy
Conspiracy theories about the murder of John F. Kennedy have been part of the American culture shortly after the shootout, and to a lesser extent, alternative theories about RFKS death, so that all publicly accessible documents in connection with both Kennedy attacks were generations of amateur researchers and Historians have examined it in detail. However, the public interest in conspiracies in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. was not that great and could lead to the greatest revelations – should the files associated with the murder actually come to light.
Members of the King family have long claimed that the official history- King was shot by the petty criminal James Earl Ray- is nonsense, and refer to the FBI’s long-term surveillance and harassment campaign against King and other discrepancies in the evidence of the murder . In 1979 the special committee of the US House of Representatives for attacks came to the conclusion that “the probability of a conspiracy in the murder of Dr. King existed ”.
