Donald Trump ordered thousands of classified governmental documents to be released about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and one of Kennedy’s grandchildren isn’t exactly thrilled.
On Thursday, the president signed an executive order aimed at declassifying any remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of both the former president and his brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters.
Although the previously classified documents may help prove or disprove the many conspiracy theories that have popped up in the six decades since the killings, Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy and grandson of JFK, isn’t on board with their declassification.
The 32-year-old political correspondent for Vogue magazine took to X after Trump’s executive order and wrote that there was “nothing heroic” about the release of documents.
“The truth is alot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” he wrote. “Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”
Considering that Schlossberg’s grandfather was murdered in cold blood, many people were surprised he didn’t see the value of releasing any documents relating to the tragedy.
Not all Kennedy family members share Schlossberg’s position, however.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whom Trump picked for his Cabinet after he ran a presidential campaign Schlossberg called an “embarrassment” — hadn’t commented publicly on Trump’s order as of Thursday, but had previously asked former President Joe Biden to release the records back in 2023 on the 60th anniversary of the assassination.
Trump promised in a pre-inauguration rally to do just that after the Biden administration released some, but not all, of the remaining documents.