The grandson of former US president John F Kennedy has hit out at Donald Trump for ordering the release of thousands of classified files on his grandfather's assassination. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the 1963 killing of then president Kennedy in Dallas.
Trump made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bent to appeals from the CIA and FBI to withhold some documents. JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg hit out at President Trump's executive order, saying there was "nothing heroic" about it.
"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 on X. "Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he's not here to punch back.". Speaking to reporters after signing the order, Trump said, "everything will be revealed.".
The fatal shooting of Kennedy in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed in front of the Texas School Book Depository building, is the source of one of the most well-known conspiracy theories of modern times. Lee Harvey Oswald was said to be the gunman, shooting dead the president, from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor of the building, as he sat next to wife Jackie in an open top car.
