JFK killing files to be released to public

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify any remaining files from the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, or JFK, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, or RFK, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, or MLK.

"I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of president John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue," Trump said in the executive order.

In the executive order, Trump instructed the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to present a plan to him for the "full and complete" release of records relating to the assassination of JFK within 15 days. The Senate has confirmed neither of the nominations.