On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and defector to the Soviet Union, fired three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, striking President Kennedy as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

Millions of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas have already been made public, but President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of still-classified files.

An executive order by Donald Trump demands the nation's security organizations create plans to release confidential records regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.