The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated during a visit to Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
An American investigation conducted in 1964 by an official commission determined that Kennedy was killed by American citizen Lee Harvey Oswald, who had previously lived in the Soviet Union, and that he acted alone. Oswald was killed two days after his arrest in a Dallas police station.
The assassination of President Kennedy continues to spark numerous speculations.
At the end of November, following his election victory, Donald Trump reiterated his campaign promise to release the final documents related to the assassination of John Kennedy. The Russian service of "Voice of America" highlights this.
The 1992 law mandated that the government release all documents pertaining to John Kennedy's assassination by October 2017.
In December 2022, the National Archives published over 13,000 documents related to John Kennedy's assassination. However, the Biden administration blocked the release of several thousand additional documents, citing national security concerns.
John Kennedy's brother, Robert, served as the U.S. Attorney General. He was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, while he was the leading candidate in the Democratic primaries for the presidency. The senator was shot by a Palestinian immigrant as he concluded his speech at the Ambassador Hotel.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was killed on April 4, 1968, by a white segregationist in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to support striking sanitation workers.