Trump orders release of JFK's assassination files

Donald Trump has ordered the release of around 80,000 pages of classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of US president John F Kennedy.

"People have been waiting for decades for this," Trump told reporters during a visit to The Kennedy Center in Washington, with the files to be made public on Tuesday US time (Wednesday AEDT).

"It's going to be very interesting," Trump said.

Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to present a plan to release records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said in February it had found thousands of new documents related to the assassination of Kennedy.

Trump signed an order during his first week in office related to the release and promised to release also documents concerning the assassinations of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.