Trump boasted he’d open all JFK files, but now says he can’t
Donald Trump,Executive Orders,JFK,Robert F Kennedy Jr,Martin Luther King Jr.,Assassination,Kennedy Assassination
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President Donald Trump boasted last fall that he would open all remaining John F. Kennedy assassination records. So far, Trump hasn’t made good on the “great transparency” he promised then.
Trump announced on Thursday that the public must wait another three years or more before seeing material that must remain classified for national security reasons — more than five decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
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