The Memphis NAACP and SCLC had a mix of hope and skepticism regarding President Trump's executive order to declassify records in major assassination cases.

Donald Trump has directed the declassification of all remaining government records related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.

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Trump’s decision to release these files comes in the wake of strong advocacy from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of RFK, who has long pushed for the declassification of documents related to his uncle’s assassination.

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK. The day has finally come when the case files are open to the public.

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During his first term, Trump said he’d release all remaining records on JFK’s assassination, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades, but he ended up holding some back due to potential harm to national security.

In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”

Federal documents relating to several high-profile assassinations during the 1960s will become fully available to the public this year after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered their release.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to release files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” The order Mr. Trump signed on Monday was an effort to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent and would affect children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants.