The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.

President Donald Trump is slated to declassify files and documents relating to the assassinations of famous Americans “in the coming days.”

President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he would release classified documents in the coming days related to the assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump promised to release the documents during his first term but later complied with intelligence community requests to keep much of the material classified.

Members of John F. Kennedy's family, including RFK Jr., who has become a top ally to Trump, have long pressed the government to release the papers.

The president-elect falsely claimed a 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action was a sweeping rejection of diversity, equity and

Donald Trump has vowed to release a set of long-hidden government files on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. after he takes office in what he believes will be an effort to ramp up government transparency.