Donald Trump has confirmed he will make public around 80,000 pages of files related to former President John F Kennedy today.
Trump signed an executive order directing Washington officials to present a plan to release records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert "Bobby" Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
The President said: "We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...I don't believe we are are going to redact anything...it's going to be very interesting...approximately 80,000 pages"
Speaking earlier this year, Trump also said: "A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed."
Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending a board meeting at the Kennedy Center
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US President John F Kennedy rides in a motorcade in Fort Worth, minutes before his assassination in November 1963
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Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaks in 1963
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JFK was assassinated in Fort Worth, Texas on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, who himself was fatally shot by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby just two days later.
Robert Kennedy was later shot in the kitchen hallway of the Ambassador Hotel in Washington by Palestinian-Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan in 1968.
King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room.
All three cases have proved popular among conspiracy theorists over the past 50 years.
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Senator Robert Kennedy speaking at an election rally in 1963
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President Donald Trump gestures while he poses for a picture at the presidential box at the Kennedy Center
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Trump told reporters while vising the Kennedy Center: "While we’re here, I thought it would be appropriate, we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files.
"So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people...lots of different people, [Director of National Intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow.
"You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact."
Trump was speaking after making himself the new chairman of the centre, threatening to shutter an expensive new addition and describing the marble Washington landmark as being in "tremendous disrepair."
Trump stands at the presidential box at the Kennedy Center
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The former real-estate mogul said the centre would improve physically over time, however, and he encouraged people to attend shows there.
He said: "This represents a very important part of DC, and actually our country" when asked why he was making time to come to the Kennedy Center with so many other things on his plate.
Trump added: "I think it's important to make sure that our country is in good shape and is represented well."
