{"id":2392697,"date":"2025-01-20T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-docs-being-released-mass-declassification-of-govt-docs\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:51:52","slug":"confirmed-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-docs-being-released-mass-declassification-of-govt-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-docs-being-released-mass-declassification-of-govt-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: JFK, RFK, MLK Assassination Docs Being Released, Mass Declassification of Gov&#8217;t Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconfirmed-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassination-docs-being-released-mass-declassification-of-govt-docs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2392697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c article discusses President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s intentions to declassify documents related\u200c to the\u2064 assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert \u200bF. Kennedy, and\u200d Martin Luther King Jr.Trump announced this \u200bplan during\u200c a \u2062speech at the Capital One\u200c Arena in Washington, D.C., where he \u2063emphasized the need for openness and accountability in government. This announcement resonated with the audience, garnering important applause.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s \u200bpromise to release files comes after he previously delayed\u200b the declassification of\u2063 such documents during \u200dhis first term due to national security\u200d concerns.\u200c The article notes skepticism regarding whether the documents will contain significant\u200c evidence\u2063 but argues that the American public deserves access to this\u2062 historical information. It also highlights the change in\u200b Trump&#8217;s approach \u200bin his \u2064second term compared to his first, suggesting that he \u2064has \u2063learned from his past decisions and is \u200dmore \u2064committed to transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the piece, various reactions from\u200c the public and notable figures, like podcaster Joe Rogan, are included, reflecting a mix \u200dof enthusiasm and caution \u2063regarding the implications \u2063of Trump&#8217;s promises. The author stresses \u200cthe meaning\u200c of these \u200bdocuments in understanding past government actions and the evolving nature of Trump&#8217;s presidency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Want evidence that this time around is going to be different for President-elect Donald Trump? Look no further than what he promises to do with the classified files to deal with the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who returns to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-walzs-attempt-mock-trump-indoor-inauguration-backfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House on Monday<\/a>, told a crowd at the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Sunday that he was going to declassify the documents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,&rdquo; he told the crowd during the speech.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kenedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The line, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/19\/us-news\/trump-vows-to-release-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-assassination-files-in-massive-transparency-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported, ended up &rdquo; drawing one of the loudest applauses of the night.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>It got plenty of applause outside the arena, too &mdash; including from podcaster Joe Rogan, who clipped it and posted it along with an American flag emoji:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> &#127482;&#127480; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K2qIDAEWrT\">pic.twitter.com\/K2qIDAEWrT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Rogan Podcast (@joeroganhq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeroganhq\/status\/1881129234422542685?\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, led to two reactions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That feels so ooooooo good. Hell yeah brother<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FrancescoPallitta &#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480; (@CescoPallitta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CescoPallitta\/status\/1881130893156503694?\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Damn it Joe&hellip; Trump is gonna knocked off before day 1 in office.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Coach Ortiz (@BeSomeone09) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeSomeone09\/status\/1881134073000931836?\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, this is pretty much what everyone thought when Trump passed on this the first time he was in office.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a deadline set under the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act hit which required the government to release all files of the JFK assassination. Trump decided against it, based in no small part on then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, later the secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he pushed the release of all the documents off to October 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wj-live-jfk-file-release-blocked-biden-excuse-downright-pathetic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a> again punted on that deadline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-outrage-wont-release-jfk-assassination-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&rsquo;s reason for punting<\/a>, however, was that &ldquo;an undisclosed amount of material will remain under wraps because the potential harm to U.S. national security or foreign affairs is &lsquo;of such gravity the it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s interesting that this came 55 years after JFK&rsquo;s assassination and a solid 27 years after Oliver Stone&rsquo;s fever-dream film &ldquo;JFK.&rdquo; If anything in those files could possibly more kooky and risible than what was posited that film &mdash; which strongly suggested, in its inchoate manner, that an ad hoc alliance between closeted gays, the mafia, and what we&rsquo;d come to call the deep state had been responsible for killing Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 &mdash; then those documents should have been declassified decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&rsquo;t tell by my tone, I strongly suspect there isn&rsquo;t anything dispositive there &mdash; but either way, America deserves to see it. The same thing goes for the 1968 shootings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, then seeking the Democratic nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, it&rsquo;s worth noting that the documents could shed light on shady activity by the CIA. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rfk-jr-tells-tucker-carlson-held-trump-back-begged-not-release-jfk-files-astonished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during an August interview with Tucker Carlson<\/a>, &ldquo;More than 60 years after my uncle&rsquo;s death &hellip; none of the people who were implicated in that crime are alive now. And the last ones have died off in the last year or two. And so, it clearly is to protect the [CIA]. And that&rsquo;s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just wrong,&rdquo; Kennedy added. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s wrong for Democrats, and it&rsquo;s wrong for Republicans &hellip; I was astonished that Trump didn&rsquo;t declassify them because he promised to during the [2016] campaign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is another sign that the second Trump term is going to be significantly different than the first: He&rsquo;s reminding America of this just before he takes the oath of office, quite a bit wiser about how Washington works. Pompeo, it&rsquo;s worth noting, doesn&rsquo;t have a role in this administration. Neither does the parade of officials who would either later go on to brag about how they bent Trump&rsquo;s ear to the mainstream media, or angle to bend Trump&rsquo;s ear again by not burning bridges and seeing if they could get themselves in a plum role if he were to get elected a second time.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s going there, apparently &mdash; and America has every right to know, especially given the fact JFK&rsquo;s assassination was over 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Do I expect to find definitive proof that Oliver Stone&rsquo;s &ldquo;JFK&rdquo; was accurate and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/no-1-movie-country-angel-fallen-appears-blast-trump-russia-conspiracy-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tommy Lee Jones<\/a> and Joe Pesci, <em>inter alia<\/em>, were involved in a cabal that knocked off Kennedy, and they would have gotten away with it if it weren&rsquo;t for that meddling Kevin Costner? Negative. But it&rsquo;ll be a sign that eight years of Trumpism &mdash; both in the White House and on the campaign trail after that &mdash; has changed the GOP, for the moment, at least, from a component in good standing of the establishment Beltway uniparty into an outsider force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Consider his commitment to declassifying documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. During a speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Trump announced plans to make these records public as part of his effort to enhance government transparency and accountability. This promise received one of the loudest cheers from the audience. The enthusiasm extended beyond the venue, with podcaster Joe Rogan sharing Trump&#8217;s statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions varied widely; some expressed excitement while others voiced concerns about Trump&#8217;s safety before even taking office. Many remember that during his first term in 2017, Trump chose not to release JFK assassination files due to national security concerns, deferring their release until October 2021\u2014a deadline later pushed back by President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that withholding these documents serves only to protect certain interests within agencies like the CIA rather than serving public interest. Robert F. 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