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'Everything will be revealed': Trump orders to declassify JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr files

Published: 23 Jan 2025 - 11:57 pm | Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025 - 12:00 am
US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he just signed to strenghten American leadership in digital financial technology, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt / AFP)

US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he just signed to strenghten American leadership in digital financial technology, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt / AFP)

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Washington: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 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.

"Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.

Birthright citizenship

Meanwhile, Trump also said on Thursday that his administration would appeal a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocks his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.

"Obviously we will appeal it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the ruling by Washington state District Judge John Coughenour, who said the president's order was "blatantly unconstitutional."