US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., US media reported.
"Many have been waiting for this moment for many years, decades. And everything will be released," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The order obliges senior administration officials to present a plan to declassify the documents within 15 days.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. His brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in California in 1968 during a presidential race. Two months later, in the same year, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis.
