MYSTERY DEATHS !
   Date :26-Jan-2025

editorial
 
PRESIDENT Mr. Donald Trump’s executive order to declassify the files related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert D.F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr will open many possibilities -- some unwelcome ones as well -- before the world that has remained intrigued by those killings decades ago. In all these cases, wild and wide speculations had distorted public sentiment beyond recognition. The declassification of the files in the US administration’s possession will lend an open access to researchers.
 
All the work on those files may subsequently bring to fore many a truth about those unfortunate assassinations that shook the world. From this angle, Mr. Donald Trump has done well to accede to the demand in that regard. Of course, after each of those shocking killings, lots and lots of speculations went up in the air with different researchers sounding out different possible reasons for the assassinations. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy came as a terrible shock to the world. He was a very popular international figure and had admirers spread the world over. His killing, naturally, led to a lot of speculative articles in the media. Many books, too, got written on the subject -- with most expressing suspicion that his killing had an ‘official’ angle. Many researchers had suspected that one of the secret service agencies of the United States had a hand in the ugly development. Similar doubts welled up in public memory when Mr. John Kennedy’s younger brother Mr. Robert Kennedy, too, got assassinated a few years later. Most researchers suspected some ‘official’ foul play in that killing as well.
 
When Rev. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, the world got another crude and rude shock from which it took years to emerge. Following that killing, much speculation -- at times very unfair -- also filled the air. All that left public mind all the more confused about the possible reason for the killing of one of the world’s most‘enemy-less’ man. That killing also had given rise to a lot of unholy doubts about who the masterminds could be behind the ugly act .Each of those assassinations -- and many other killings or deaths of important persons around the world -- had pushed the world into serious doubts about safety and security of important personages in different societies. India, too, has had its share of such assassinations -- India’s second Prime Minister Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya ... to name a few.
 
If some clues were available about the killings of Mrs. Indira Gandhi or Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, there were no clues whatsoever as regards the sudden death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Jan Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya -- leading to many wild speculations. The Government in India, too, is in possession of some classified material on these killings. It may be a welcome idea for the Government to declassify those files as well so that many murder mysteries could be open for public scrutiny. The common people have every right to know how deaths of their darling leaders took place in mysterious manner. President Mr. Donald Trump has opened a new avenue of research into some important episodes of contemporary history in the US and elsewhere. The findings from those hitherto classified files may open doors to ‘new’ truths.