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President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he would be releasing long-sought classified documents pertaining to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Trump also made a similar promise during his first term in office.
“In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other topics of great public interest,” Trump said at a rally in downtown Washington on Sunday.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of Robert Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy, has claimed in the past that he believes the CIA was involved in the President’s assassination and that multiple gunmen were involved. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has gone on record denying those allegations.
In October of 2017, Trump announced that he was going to allow the release of more than 3,000 classified John F. Kennedy files. He did release some of the files, but the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) limited the number of documents that were released to a smaller number due to “national security concerns.”
Last year, during an interview with Lex Fridman, Donald Trump again addressed releasing classified files on John F. Kennedy.
“[People] also are pushing me on [John F.] Kennedy. And I did release a lot, but I had people come to me and beg me not to do it. But I’ll be doing that very early on,” he said.
Earlier this month, Radaronline.com reported that John F. Kennedy was allegedly killed by Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.
“LBJ in my opinion was 99.5 percent behind this. It’s less likely Nixon knew in advance of the brutal slaying, but he was certainly involved in the cover-up,” said Gary Fannin, who Radar calls “a Kennedy murder expert.”
Fannin goes on to explain how Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who was the man arrested for shooting JFK, was involved in the assassination. Ruby worked “performing information functions” for Nixon when he was a senator. He also supposedly smuggled a letter out of prison after killing Oswald, which named Johnson as the person behind the murder of JFK.