Jack Schlossberg issued a harsh rebuke to Donald Trump following his order to release all remaining documents related to the 1963 assassination of his grandfather, former President John F. Kennedy.
The final secret files on Kennedy's assassination can now be published after President Trump ordered the release of all remaining documents on the 1963 assassination on Thursday.
Schlossberg, JFK's only grandson and a social media darling, went to X and angrily criticized the release of the files and the hype over the information that eventually came out.
“The truth is much sadder than the myth – a tragedy that did not have to happen,” Schlossberg wrote on Thursday.
The liberal journalist and lawyer then criticized President Trump for using his grandfather's death to score political points.
'Not part of an inevitable grand plan. Declassification uses JFK as a political crutch when he is not here to strike back. There's nothing heroic about it.'
Conspiracy theories – what Schlossberg called what those interested in the files wanted to find out – continue to swirl sixty years after the murder.
Any new information will excite amateur sleuths, who continue to wonder if there is more to the story than just a lone gunman in the form of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Jack Schlossberg tried to pour cold water on Donald Trump's order to release all remaining documents on the 1963 assassination of his grandfather, former President John F. Kennedy
The final secret files on Kennedy's assassination may now be published after President Donald Trump ordered the release of all remaining documents on the 1963 assassination on Thursday
Trump signed an executive order directing his Director of National Intelligence to prepare a plan within 15 days for the full release of documents related to JFK's assassination.
“That's a big one, isn't it?” He said as he scribbled his signature on the order before asking for the pen to be given to RFK Jr. 'A lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time… years, decades.
“All will be revealed.”
The executive order, obtained by DailyMail.com, read: “More than fifty years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government has made all his documents relating to those events public.
“Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release without delay all documents relating to these murders.”
His intelligence chiefs have 45 days to formulate a plan to release RFK and King's archives.
Millions of pages of JFK documents have already been declassified, leaving only a few thousand in the archives.
The latest releases include CIA cables and memos documenting Oswald's visits to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City weeks before the assassination.
Schlossberg, JFK's only grandson and a social media favorite, furiously criticized X over the release of the files and the hype over the information that would eventually come out.
US President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and others smile at the crowd along their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Minutes later, the president was assassinated as his car drove through Dealey Plaza .
Conspiracies have been going on for decades claiming that JFK's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone actor and worked with Soviets or Cubans – or even the US CIA.
And experts doubt whether major revelations lurk in the archives that would change the accepted version of events.
Trump promised during his re-election campaign that he would release the remaining government documents surrounding the assassination.
He made a similar promise during his first term, but gave way to the CIA and FBI, which argued that some documents should be kept from the public for fear they would reveal national security secrets.
Trump teased his plan Wednesday night during his Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.
“I'm going to release them immediately,” he said.
'We're going to look at the information. We are looking into it now.'
Trump said he was persuaded by Mike Pompeo, his former CIA director, not to release them during his first term.
Oswald shown after his arrest. He was later shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in a moment captured on live television
“I was actually asked by Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, not to do that, and I felt like he knew something that maybe, you know, when he asked you not to do that, you kind of said, “Why?” and he felt it was not a good time to release them,” Trump said.
The hidden data gave conspiracy theorists the freedom to speculate about what could possibly be hidden.
Was Oswald in the employ of the Cubans or the Soviets? Was he a patsy? Why did nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoot him live on TV?
The new executive order, signed by Trump in the Oval Office, reads: “I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is inconsistent with the public interest and declassification of these records is long overdue.”
