Trump will release records of the assassinations of the Kennedy Brothers and Martin Luther King

Donald J. Trump has said he will soon release records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of measures to restore confidence in the government.

The murders, particularly that of the president who was shot in Dallas in November 1963, have been the subject of decades of controversy as well as conspiracy theories. Mr. King was shot and killed in Memphis in April 1968, while Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed in California that June, shortly after winning California’s Democratic primary. The three deaths shook America in different ways, and historians consider each a turning point in the tumultuous decade.

“As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to the government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents,” Mr. Trump said at a meeting Sunday ahead of his inauguration, adding that documents related to other subjects of “Major ‘public interest'” would also be declassified. “It will all be released, Uncle Sam,” he said.

Mr. Trump’s statement is likely to generate particular interest among his supporters, given the fascination he has expressed with certain conspiracies and the fact that he survived an assassination attempt in July when he was shot and wounded while running for president.