Trump Has Previously Released Records on JFK, RFK and MLK Assassinations

The current U.S. president has previously released records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Those records covered documents connected to the three killings.

The releases occurred during an earlier period in which the president made certain government files public. The material included information held by federal agencies on the circumstances of each assassination. Officials processed and disclosed batches of the files in response to long-standing public requests for greater transparency on the historical events.

The assassinations took place in 1963 for John F. Kennedy, 1968 for both Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The records released in the past contained varying degrees of detail on investigations, communications and other materials generated at the time.

Further releases of related documents have been discussed in subsequent years. Such actions form part of broader efforts to declassify government holdings on major historical incidents from the 1960s.

No new disclosures were announced in the current reporting.