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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday demanding the release of the last investigative files connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
WBZ NewsRadio asked some people outside the JFK Presidential Library and Museum on Friday what they thought about the president’s order, which has fueled fierce debate for decades.
“I mean, it just takes one bullet,” one person said. “Just because he could have [killed him], doesn’t mean he did,” another person added.
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The president also mandated that records related to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., are released to the public.
“It was such a dynamic time [in history],” another person said.
In an official White House statement on Thursday, the president insisted that the release of these records was long overdue.
“More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,” President Trump said.
The Trump Administration has put forward a motion a directive to release the last of these files and will work with Congress over the next two weeks to work towards that goal.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Jim MacKay (@JimMacKayOnAir) reports.