Trump orders release of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr assassination records

Trump orders release of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr assassination records
Donald Trump holds a signed executive order regarding the declassification and release of records relating to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr (Ben Curtis/AP)

US President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy, which has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.

The executive order Mr Trump signed on Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Senator Robert F Kennedy and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

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