On Thursday (Jan. 23), President Trump signed an executive order to release thousands of classified government documents, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family responded to Donald Trump’s move to order the declassification of records linked to the assassination of the American civil rights activist more than 50 years ago. In a statement published on social media Thursday evening,

John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at the age of 46. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, launched an investigation into the tragedy. Decades later, in 2023,