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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8641-8642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02116]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 20 / Friday, January 31, 2025 / 
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                Executive Order 14176 of January 23, 2025

                
Declassification of Records Concerning the 
                Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator 
                Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther 
                King, Jr.

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered:

                Section 1. Policy and Purpose. More than 50 years after 
                the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, 
                Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin 
                Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not 
                released to the public all of its records related to 
                those events. Their families and the American people 
                deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national 
                interest to finally release all records related to 
                these assassinations without delay.

                The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records 
                Collection Act of 1992 required all records related to 
                the assassination of President Kennedy to be publicly 
                disclosed in full by October 26, 2017, unless the 
                President certifies that: (i) continued postponement is 
                made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military 
                defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or 
                conduct of foreign relations; and (ii) the identifiable 
                harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public 
                interest in disclosure. President John F. Kennedy 
                Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, section 
                5(g)(2)(D), Public Law 102-526, 106 Stat. 3443, 3448-
                49, codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note.

                I previously accepted proposed redactions from 
                executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 
                and 2018, but ordered the continued re-evaluation of 
                those remaining redactions. See Temporary Certification 
                for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of 
                President John F. Kennedy, 82 FR 50,307-08 (Oct. 31, 
                2017); Certification for Certain Records Related to the 
                Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 83 FR 19, 
                157-58 (Apr. 26, 2018). In the Presidential Memorandum 
                of April 26, 2018, I also ordered agencies to re-review 
                each of those redactions over the next 3 years and 
                disclose information that no longer warrants continued 
                withholding under the standard set forth in section 
                5(g)(2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy 
                Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

                President Biden issued subsequent certifications with 
                respect to these records in 2021, 2022, and 2023, which 
                gave agencies additional time to review the records and 
                withhold information from public disclosure. See 
                Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of 
                Information in Certain Records Related to the 
                Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 86 FR 
                59,599 (Oct. 22, 2021); Certifications Regarding 
                Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to 
                the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 87 FR 
                77,967 (Dec. 15, 2022); Certification Regarding 
                Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to 
                the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 88 FR 
                43,247 (June 30, 2023).

                I have now determined that the continued redaction and 
                withholding of information from records pertaining to 
                the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not 
                consistent with the public interest and the release of 
                these records is long overdue. And although no Act of 
                Congress directs the release of information pertaining 
                to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and 
                the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have 
                determined

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                that the release of all records in the Federal 
                Government's possession pertaining to each of those 
                assassinations is also in the public interest.

                Sec. 2. Declassification and Disclosure. (a) Within 15 
                days of the date of this order, the Director of 
                National Intelligence and the Attorney General shall, 
                in coordination with the Assistant to the President for 
                National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the 
                President, present a plan to the President for the full 
                and complete release of records relating to the 
                assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

                    (b) Within 45 days of the date of this order, the 
                Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney 
                General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to 
                the President for National Security Affairs and the 
                Counsel to the President, review records related to the 
                assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the 
                Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a 
                plan to the President for the full and complete release 
                of these records.

                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 23, 2025.

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