Trump vows to release government files on JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations
Donald Trump,Politics,Martin Luther King Jr.,Robert F Kennedy Jr,JFK,Kennedy Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. Yet, the murder of the president has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories almost since the moment it happened.
Despite multiple government investigations, many have suspected the long-accepted details told to the public about the assassination were not entirely truthful. Now, over 60 years later, the country could soon find out if any conspiracies surrounding the murder exist.
During a rally on Sunday at Capitol One arena in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his election victory and upcoming inauguration on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would release public records about Kennedy’s assassination. He said he would do the same for records on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on June 6, 1968, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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