JFK’S grandson Jack Schlossberg has spoken after the executive order was signed by Mr Trump (Image: Getty )
The grandson of former president John F Kennedy (JFK) has issued a damning two-word response to after he ordered the release of thousands of classified documents about his grandfather’s assassination.
The new US president signed an on Thursday promising that “everything will be revealed” about in 1963.
The Cold War era leader’s killing in Dallas remains one of the most notorious political assassinations in history, and theories have swirled since the day it occurred.
JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, slammed these conspiracy theories and seemingly criticised President Trump’s executive order, claiming there is “nothing heroic” about it.
He wrote on X: “The truth is alot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme.
Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963 (Image: Getty)
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“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back.”
JFK’s suspected killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot dead himself two days after the murder. From the involvement of a second shooter to a communist plot, a vast array of theories has been floated.
Mr Trump vowed to unveil the files during his first presidential term but agreed with CIA and FBI pleas to keep some classified. The executive order also declassified files on the killing of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
A fact sheet released by the White House says it “establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims’ families and the American people deserve the truth.”
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Robert F Kennedy Jr, JFK’s nephew and Mr Trump’s pick to lead the US Health Department, he isn’t convinced by the official narrative around JFK’s death.
His own dad was shot dead as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. After signing the order, Mr Trump gave the pen to an aide and directed it be given to RFK Jr.
Only a few thousand of the millions of governmental records related to the assassination of President Kennedy have yet to be fully declassified. And while many who have studied what’s been released so far say the public shouldn’t anticipate any earth-shattering revelations, there is still intense interest in details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.
Mr Trump’s order asks the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to devise a plan within 15 days to declassify the last JFK records.
President Kennedy was fatally shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade drove in front of the Texas School Book Depository building, where 24-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor.