President Donald Trump has long been critical of the federal government's excessive secrecy and overclassification of information and has demanded more accountability and transparency with the public in that regard.

As such, Trump has promised to declassify and release all documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., Breitbart reported.

The release of those decades-old files would seemingly go a long way toward confirming or disproving various conspiracy theories surrounding those assassinations, including that the federal government played some sort of unspecified role in the untimely deaths.

"It’s all going to be released"

On Sunday, during his pre-inauguration Victory Rally at the Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C., President Trump vowed to release as soon as possible all of the classified files related to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.

"As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents," Trump said.

"And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other topics of great public interest," he continued to a roar of approval from the crowd of rally-goers.

In what could be interpreted as a warning for federal bureaucrats who may be reluctant to declassify and publish those files, Trump added, "It’s all going to be released, Uncle Sam."

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A few thousand JFK documents remain

The Associated Press reported that President Trump had made a similar vow to declassify all of the JFK assassination files that have been kept secret at the National Archives for decades, and while much was released as promised, Trump acceded to requests from the CIA and FBI to not release everything.

As such, there remains an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 JFK documents at the Archives with varying levels of redaction, and it remains unclear when, or even if, all of those documents will be declassified and released by the Trump administration.

However, if people are hoping for some sort of major bombshell that completely upends the public's understanding of the JFK assassination, they will likely be disappointed as subject experts suspect the contents of the still-classified materials are rather mundane.

Rather than expose some sort of vast conspiracy or heretofore unconfirmed government involvement, the documents have likely been withheld solely to protect the intelligence community's sources and methods for information gathering or include personal information about some of the individuals involved in the incident.

Release of files could answer questions, restore public trust

There have long been deeply held suspicions that the CIA and/or the FBI played critical roles in the assassinations of JFK, his brother RFK, and MLK, and denials of such involvement from government officials over the years have been difficult for many to believe given the continued secrecy surrounding the government's files on those incidents.

Finally declassifying and releasing those files could help significantly to either confirm or debunk the various theories about the assassinations and potentially restore some measure of trust among the American people that their government isn't keeping unnecessary secrets from them.