The secrecy surrounding historical political assassinations took a major blow Friday as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the public release of over 10,000 previously classified documents related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Gabbard confirmed the release during an appearance on FOX & Friends, marking the first time these files have been made available to the public.
“Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump,” Gabbard said in a statement.
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The files include documents from the federal government’s investigation into Kennedy’s 1968 assassination, internal communications, and material involving theories that circulated during the investigation. Gabbard noted that these records had never been digitized or seen by the public before now.
The effort to declassify the files was carried out under the directive of President Donald Trump, who ordered the release of all remaining documents pertaining to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following the start of his second term.
“In the name of maximum transparency, President Trump has released over 10,000 pages of the RFK files with more to come,” a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
“There has never been a more transparent president in the history of our country than President Donald J. Trump. Another promise made and promise kept.”
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The release follows Gabbard’s remarks during an April 10 Cabinet meeting, where she informed Trump that her team had been working “around the clock” scanning decades-old documents related to the RFK and MLK investigations.
Gabbard told the President, “These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before.”
In the same April 10 meeting, Gabbard revealed that over 100 staffers at the National Archives were involved in preparing the documents for public release.
On Friday, she added that her team had recently discovered an additional 50,000 pages related to the Kennedy assassination. “We’re obviously not stopping here,” Gabbard said.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late senator, also praised the release of the files.
“I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency,” Kennedy said in a joint statement with Gabbard.
“I’m grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents. This is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed that sentiment Friday morning on X, posting, “RFK Files have been released. Promises Made. Promises Kept.”
RFK Files have been released. Promises Made. Promises Kept. https://t.co/XiDMd90NxM
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 18, 2025
Under President Trump’s declassification order, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General were given deadlines to submit their release plans.
The JFK file plans were due on February 7, with the RFK and MLK plans required by March 9.
This release comes weeks after the Department of Justice released a batch of files related to Jeffrey Epstein in late February.
While many of those documents had previously been disclosed during the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, the move drew public attention to long-classified federal investigations.
The newly released RFK documents are expected to be the first of several batches, with officials continuing to comb through tens of thousands of additional pages.
Gabbard reiterated the Trump administration’s commitment to full transparency, saying, “This is just the beginning.”
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