President Trump told security agencies to develop plans to make public all documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In a statement Thursday, King's family members said they would like to have the chance to review the files before it is released to the public.

Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of files related to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr, hoping it may shed new light on decades-old controversies.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, as well as that of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

On his fourth day in office as president, Donald Trump ordered records on the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy declassified.

President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

The family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is reacting to an executive order issued on Thursday to declassify documents associated with his assassination.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

In a move that has reignited conspiracy theories going on for decades, the newly inaugurated President of the United States Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F.

Donald J. Trump has said that once he is sworn in as president on Monday, he will quickly release records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of measures to restore confidence in government.

In the executive order regarding the three assassinations, Trump wrote: “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.”