Fury at JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files release plan

DONALD Trump has ignited fury and conspiracist excitement after ordering the release of the final files on the three major political assassinations in the US in the 1960s.

- Christopher Bucktin

The remaining classified papers detailing the deaths of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert F Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr are now set for publication.

Conspiracy theorists have celebrated the move, convinced the men were killed in FBI and CIA plots.

However Jack Schlossberg, JFK's only grandson, said: "The truth is a lot sadder than the myth - a tragedy that didn't need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme.

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"Declassification is using JFK as a political prop when he's not here to punch back. There's nothing heroic about it." Setting an ambitious deadline of 13 days, the new president has vowed to start shedding light on the deaths starting with JFK.

He said: "A lot of people have been waiting for this for decades.

And everything will be revealed." JFK was assassinated in November 1963 in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open motorcade.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine Corps veteran who had defected to the Soviet Union and later returned to the US, was the prime suspect.