JFK files are being declassified by Trump. When and where can you read them?
President Trump signed an executive order this week to declassify the assassination files of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King.
"More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events," a release from the White House stated this week. "It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay."
JFK, who was from Massachusetts, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. He was allegedly killed by shooter Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine-turned-communist activist. Oswald was fatally shot two days after the Kennedy assassination.
Here's what to know.
When will people be able to see the declassified JFK files?
There's still a bit of a process before the files will be released.
Within 15 days, according to the White House, a plan will be presented "for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."
For the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations the Director of National Intelligence has 45 days to put the plan together.
Once the plans are in place, the public will have a better idea about when the documents will be released.
Currently, you can see some of the past declassified JFK files on the National Archives website.
Will the documents reveal all the information people want to know about these events?
When it comes to the declassified documents pertaining to JFK, Tom Samoluk, who serves on the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, had some input, according to Wicked Local media partner WCVB Channel 5.
"The records will not reveal any smoking gun," Samoluk told WCVB in a report this week. "There will be some puzzle pieces that will be put back in that will tell a more robust and rich story."
WCVB said Samoluk has already seen the declassified reports as the deputy director of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board back in the 1990s.
It is yet to be revealed what is in the declassified files pertaining to the assassinations of MLK and RFK.
Why did President Trump decide to declassify the documents?
In a release from the White House this week, President Trump said that continuing to classify the documents is "not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue."
"And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government's possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest."