US To Reveal Secrets: Here's All You Need to Know About Tragic Deaths of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr

Delivering on one of his top presidential campaign pledges from 2024, US President Donald Trump has announced the release of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of then US President John F. Kennedy, 1968 assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

"When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It's been 60 years, time for the American people to know the TRUTH!” Trump had said during his presidential campaigns in 2024. 

Earlier in January, he said that the families of the victims and the Americans have full rights to know the truth about the assassinations.

"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,” Trump said in his January order.

Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy - All You Need To Know 

The assassination of John F. Kennedy has always been a subject which is surrounded by conspiracy theories. John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while he was riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie were also with him. With his reelection campaign looming the following year, this visit to Texas was expected to be a political effort to mend fences. 

As the motorcade was nearing the end of its downtown route, gunshots were heard from the Texas School Book Depository. John F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine. 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was immediately arrested but just two days later, Oswald was shot dead during his transfer to jail by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. 

In the following year, President Lyndon B. Johnson had established Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. The probe concluded on a note that assassin Oswald acted alone and there was no evidence of conspiracy.

Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy - All You Need To Know 

Two Kennedy brothers - Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy were assassinated five years apart. At the age of 42, on June 5 in 1968, United States senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. He was declared dead the next day.

RFK, a candidate in 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, had recently won the California and South Dakota primaries. The news of his victory came around midnight and he decided to interact with his supporters who had gathered at the ballroom of the hotel. Following the speech at the Embassy Ballroom, Kennedy was exiting through the crowded passageway when a man stepped out in front of him and fired shots from a .22 calibre revolver. He was then rushed to the Good Samaritan Hospital; however, nearly 25 hours later, he passed away .

Assassin Sirhan, known to be a Palestinian from Beirut was only 24-year-old. His Christian family had emigrated to California and settled in Pasadena in 1956. During the trial of the case, it was revealed that Sirhan had acted in revenge for Kennedy’s pro-Israeli sympathies. The assassin of RFK was sentenced to death in 1969 but the sentence was modified to life imprisonment three years later. 

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - All You Need To Know 

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at on April 4, 1968 at around 6 PM. He (34) was standing on a balcony outside his second-floor Room 306 at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The one of the most prominent leaders of the American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital with severe wounds to the lower right side of his face, but he was pronounced dead at 7:05 PM. 

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Tennessee to lead a march by the striking Memphis sanitation workers.

The assassin of the Nobel Peace Prize was 40-year-old James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport. He got a 99-year prison sentence.
As a consequence of the assassination, riots, loot, and racial violence spread across 100 US cities that killed more than 40 people.