As noted in the article, documents related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and Martin Luther King Jr. will also be declassified. Trump stated that "many people have been waiting for this for decades."
Intelligence leaders have 45 days to formulate a plan for the release of the archives, according to media reports.
After the partial declassification of documents related to the Kennedy assassination, the National Archives and Records Administration announced in 2022 that 97% of the approximately 5 million pages pertaining to this case are already publicly accessible, journalists noted.
Trump promised during his first administration in 2017 that he would make the remaining documents regarding the Kennedy assassination public. Among these were about 3,000 documents that had never been published, along with another 30,000 that were released with redactions. However, not all of these files were declassified during his first presidential term, the media points out.
CBS News adds that in 1992, Congress mandated that all documents related to the assassination be released within 25 years.