Trump, who released some of the documents during his first term, said in the run-up to the 2024 election he would “declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents.”

Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017. Though, the release has been held up by national security concerns.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he would release classified documents in the coming days related to the assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

President Donald Trump has ordered the release of secret documents surrounding the assassinations of several prominent political figures.

Follow updates and coverage on Trump's administration as the president addresses the World Economic Forum and the Senate considers Trump Cabinet nominees.

President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK. That wait may soon be over.

NBC News' Tom Llamas spoke to Gerald Posner, author of "Case Closed," about the potential impact of President Trump's order to release the assassination files of President John F. Kennedy.