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Trump orders release of last files on assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK

US President John F Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, less than an hour before his assassination on November 22, 1963 [Cecil Stoughton/JFK Library/The White House]

United States President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification and release of all remaining files related to the assassination of former US President John F Kennedy, the focus of popular conspiracy theories for six decades.

Trump’s executive order signed on Thursday also calls for the release of the last remaining records on the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy, JFK’s younger brother, and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

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