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Rhiannon Ingle
JFK’s grandson has shared his response after Donald Trump ordered for a release of classified assassination files.
Since being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States following his inauguration on Monday (20 January), Trump has signed a number of executive orders.
One of which included ordering the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy - a historical event which has has fuelled a number of opposing conspiracy theories for decades.
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Kennedy was shot as his motorcade drove past the Texas School Book Depository building, where 24-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had positioned himself in a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor.
Just two days after Kennedy was killed, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby during a jail transfer.
The order in question, which was signed Thursday (23 January), also seeks to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
"More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy, and the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, the federal government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events," the executive order stated.
It added: "Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay."
When speaking to reporters on the order, the Republican leader claimed: "Everything will be revealed."
"That’s a big one," he added as he signed the order.
Since then, JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has taken to social media to call out the executive order, saying there was 'nothing heroic' about what Trump was doing.
Writing on X on Thursday (23 January), Schlossberg penned: "JFK conspiracy theories -
"The truth is a lot sadder than the myth - a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme."
He continued: "Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back.
"There’s nothing heroic about it."
He signed off the tweet, 'Jack'.
Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, however, said that he was 'grateful to President Trump', adding: "I think it’s a great move, because they need to have more transparency in our government, and he’s keeping his promise to have the government tell the truth to the American people about everything."