President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will release documents on the 1960s assassinations of JFK's younger brother Robert F Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump had ordered the substantial release of the John F. Kennedy assassination records in his first term, but some were redacted or withheld.

Trump ordered all unreleased documents from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to be made public.

Jack Schlossberg said there is "nothing heroic" about the president's order to release classified documents about the 1963 assassination.

US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history – the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F ...