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https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/01/24/trump-ordered-release-of-jfk-rfk-and-mlk-assassination-records-heres-the-king

Trump ordered release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination records: Here's the King family's response

January 24, 2025 8:13 AM

President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.

The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.

Speaking to reporters, Trump said, "everything will be revealed."

The announcement came just days after the King family celebrated a poignant and widely-streamed celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, which coincided with the presidential inauguration for only the third time in history.

Trump had promised during his reelection campaign to make public the last batches of still-classified documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, which has transfixed people for decades.

Trump made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bent to appeals from the CIA and FBI to withhold some documents.

Trump has nominated Kennedy's nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be the health secretary in his new administration.

Kennedy's father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 as he sought the Democratic presidential nomination.

The younger Kennedy has said he isn't convinced that a lone gunman was solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President Kennedy, in 1963.

The order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to develop a plan within 15 days to release the remaining John F. Kennedy records, and within 45 days for the other two cases.

It was not clear when the records would actually be released.

Trump handed the pen used to sign the order to an aide and directed it to be given to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

President John F. Kennedy

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 an intense interest in details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.

"There's always the possibility that something would slip through that would be the tiny tip of a much larger iceberg that would be revealing," said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of "The Kennedy Half-Century."

"That's what researchers look for. Now, odds are you won't find that but it is possible that it's there."

Kennedy was fatally shot in downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed 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.

Two days after Kennedy was killed, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer.

In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration.

The collection of over 5 million records was required to be opened by 2017, barring any exemptions designated by the president.

The order notes that although no congressional act directs the release of information on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy or King, those governmental records being made public "is also in the public interest."

During his first term, Trump boasted that he'd allow the release of all of the remaining records on the president's assassination but ended up holding some back because of what he called the potential harm to national security.

And while files have continued to be released under President Joe Biden, some still remain unseen.

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Sabato, who trains student researchers to comb through the documents, said that most researchers agree that "roughly" 3,000 records have not yet been released, either in whole or in part, and many of those originated with the CIA.

The documents released over the last several years offer details on the way intelligence services operated at the time, and include CIA cables and memos discussing visits by Oswald to the Soviet and Cuban embassies during a trip to Mexico City just weeks before the assassination.

The former Marine had previously defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.

Martin Luther King Jr.

King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated within two months of each other in 1968. King was outside a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, when shots rang out.

The civil rights leader, who had been in town to support striking sanitation workers, was set to lead marches and other nonviolent protests there. He died at a hospital less than an hour later.

James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to assassinating King. He later though renounced that plea and maintained his innocence up until his death.

FBI documents released over the years show how the bureau wiretapped King's telephone lines, bugged his hotel rooms and used informants to get information against him.

The agency's conduct was the subject of the recent documentary film, " MLK/FBI."

Shortly after the news broke about Trump's order Thursday, the social media accounts for the King Center and its CEO, Bernice King, youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, issued this statement:

“Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years. We hope to be provided the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.

At this time, the King Family is not taking any interviews as they await further information."

In a thread on X Tuesday while responding to a user who had posted an AI image of her father, Bernice King had called his death a "state-sanctioned assassination." "I hope you understand my concerns about the image.

I know that my father has become a bit of a caricature to the world and that his image is often used with no regard to his family, his sacrificial work, or to the tragic, unjust way in which he died (a state-sanctioned assassination)."

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy, then a New York senator, was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California's Democratic presidential primary.

His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison.

There are still some documents in the JFK collection though that researchers don't believe the president will be able to release.

Around 500 documents, including tax returns, weren't subject to the 2017 disclosure requirement. And, researchers note, documents have also been destroyed over the decades.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

January 24, 2025

Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope

Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS has made a dramatic appearance in planet Earth's skies. A visitor from the distant Oort Cloud, the comet reached its perihelion on January 13. On January 19, the bright comet was captured here from ESO Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile. Sporting spectacular sweeping dust tails, this comet ATLAS is setting in the southern hemisphere twilight and was clearly visible to the unaided eye. In the foreground is the closed shell of one of the observatory's famous auxiliary telescopes. Still wowing southern hemisphere observers, the comet's bright coma has become diffuse, its icy nucleus apparently disintegrating following its close approach to the Sun.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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They took out all the conspiracy shit for that?

Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft

Jan 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM EST

The brightest comet of the year was spotted skimming just past the sun by a satellite orbiting our star.

The comment, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, or its closest point to the sun.

During its close call with the sun, the comet glowed brightly to a magnitude of -3.4, just shy of the brightness of Venus in the sky, which shines at a magnitude of about -4.5 at its brightest.

NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth.

The video was taken by an instrument on SOHO called the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph), which covers the bright glare of the sun using a disk, allowing more delicate details of the sun's corona and other passing objects to be seen more clearly.

"The head of the comet became so bright, it overwhelmed LASCO's sensor, creating artificial horizontal bands (known as "bleeding") in the images," NASA explained.

The comet was only first discovered on April 5 last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey, which has discovered around 5,000 comets so far, according to NASA.

C/2024 G3 was thought to originate in the Oort cloud, an enormous cloud of rock and ice surrounding our solar system, with the comet taking about 160,000 years to orbit the sun.

"This relatively close approach classifies it as a sun-skirting comet, though not close enough to be a true 'sungrazer'," Shyam Balaji, astroparticle physics and cosmology researcher at King's College London, told Newsweek.

Unfortunately, this was C/2024 G3's final trip, as during its close pass with the sun, the comet was blasted with intense heat and radiation from the sun, surviving for only a week after its perihelion before possibly disintegrating.

In the days following its perihelion, people around the world snapped some stunning pictures of the comet and its spectacular tail.

While not visible from the Northern Hemisphere, people in the Southern Hemisphere were able to catch a glimpse of the comet soaring just above the horizon at sunrise and sunset.

Astronaut Don Pettit even managed to take a picture of the comet from the International Space Station.

"It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit. Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit," he posted to X.

The comet is now suspected to have broken apart, and is "headless", making its tail even more spectacular of a sight.

However, as the remains of the comet head further away from Earth, this rare sight will slowly fade into oblivion.

https://www.newsweek.com/comet-video-nasa-soho-satellite-passing-sun-2020307

https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1877963226530349168

Hubble Studies the Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts

Jan 24, 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.

Despite being only 10–20% as massive as the Milky Way galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud contains some of the most impressive nearby star-forming regions.

The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe.

At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most massive stars known, weighing roughly 200 times the mass of the Sun.

The section of the nebula shown here features serene blue gas, brownish-orange dust patches, and a sprinkling of multicolored stars.

The stars within and behind the dust clouds appear redder than those that are unobscured by dust.

Dust absorbs and scatters blue light more than red light, allowing more of the red light to reach our telescopes, which makes the stars appear redder than they are.

This image incorporates ultraviolet and infrared light as well as visible light.

Using Hubble observations of dusty nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other galaxies, researchers can study these distant dust grains, helping them better understand the role that cosmic dust plays in the formation of new stars and planets.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-studies-the-tarantula-nebulas-outskirts/

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/nasa-jpl-prepping-for-full-year-of-launches-mission-milestones/

NASA JPL Prepping for Full Year of Launches, Mission Milestones

Jan 23, 2025

Missions will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang and ongoing changes to Earth’s surface.

With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025.

Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 employees, but work has continued apace to maintain mission operations and keep upcoming missions on track.

Several missions managed by NASA JPL are prepping for launch this year.

Most have been years in the making and launches are, of course, only part of the bigger picture.

Other milestones are also on the docket for the federal laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA.

Here’s a glimpse of what lies ahead this year.

Mysterious Universe

Shaped like the bell of a trumpet and as big as a subcompact car, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory is aiming for the stars.

Known formally as the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, the mission will create four 3D maps of the entire sky in order to improve humanity’s understanding of the universe — how it expanded after the big bang, where ingredients of life can be found in ice grains, and much more.

Target launch date: no earlier than Feb. 27 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The Moon’s Icy Secrets

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer aims to help resolve an enduring mystery: Where is the Moon’s water?

Scientists have seen signs suggesting it exists even where temperatures soar on the lunar surface, and there’s good reason to believe it can be found as surface ice in permanently shadowed craters, places that have not seen direct sunlight for billions of years.

Managed by NASA JPL and led by Caltech, the small satellite will help provide answers, mapping the Moon’s surface water in unprecedented detail to determine the water’s abundance, location, form, and how it changes over time.

The small satellite will hitch a ride, slated for late February, on the same launch as the Intuitive Machines-2 delivery to the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative.

Earth’s Changing Surface

A collaboration between the United States and India, NISAR is a major addition to the fleet of satellites studying our changing planet.

Short for NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar, the mission’s name is a nesting doll of acronyms, and the spacecraft is a nesting doll of capabilities:

The first spacecraft to carry both L-band and S-band radars, it will see surface changes related to volcanoes, earthquakes, ice sheet motion, deforestation, and more in unprecedented detail after it launches in a few months’ time.

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Sea Level

Targeting a November launch, Sentinel-6B will provide global sea surface height measurements — some of the most accurate data of its kind yet — that will improve climate models and hurricane tracking, as well as our understanding of phenomena like El Niño.

A collaboration between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), the spacecraft will take the baton from its twin, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which launched in 2020.

Together, the satellites are extending for another 10 years a nearly three-decade record of global sea surface height.

Moon Rover Trio

As a technology demonstration, the CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) project marks another step NASA is taking toward developing robots that, by operating autonomously, can boost the efficiency of future missions.

The project team at JPL will soon be packing up and shipping CADRE’s three suitcase-size rovers to Texas in preparation for their journey to the Moon aboard a commercial lander through one of NASA’s future CLPS deliveries.

The rovers are designed to work together as a team without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth.

And, by taking simultaneous measurements from multiple locations, they are meant to show how multirobot missions could enable new science and support astronauts.

Quantum Technology

Having arrived at the International Space Station in November, SEAQUE (Space Entanglement and Annealing QUantum Experiment) is testing two technologies that, if successful, could enable communication using entangled photons between two quantum systems.

The research from this experiment, which gets underway in 2025, could help develop the building blocks for a future global quantum network that would allow equipment such as quantum computers to transfer data securely across large distances.

Gravity Assist to Reach Jupiter

Launched this past October, Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030 to investigate whether an ocean beneath the ice shell of the gas giant’s moon Europa has conditions suitable for life.

The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) to reach its destination.

Since there are limitations on how much fuel the spacecraft can carry, mission planners are having Europa Clipper fly by Mars on March 1, using the planet’s gravity as a slingshot to add speed to its journey.

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