Important documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and Martin Luther King Jr. will be released “in the next few days,” according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The documents, which have spent “decades” in storage, are currently being scanned for release, Gabbard revealed during a public cabinet meeting with President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Sr.’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“We’ve been scanning—I’ve had over a hundred people working around the clock to scan the paper around RFK, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination,” Director Gabbard said.
“These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades, they have never been scanned or seen before. We’ll have those ready to release here in the next few days.”
In response to the announcement, RFK Jr. said he felt, “very gratified.”
RFK Sr., brother of President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in June 1968, after he had won the Democrat presidential primary. The official story that RFK Sr. was killed by a lone gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, has been the subject of intense dispute, just like the circumstances of President Kennedy’s assassination.
In January, President Trump signed an Executive Order to declassify records related to the assassinations of President Kennedy, RFK Sr. and MLK Jr.
After two attempts on his own life during the 2024 presidential campaign, President Trump also vowed to create a commission into presidential assassinations. He said it would be dedicated to RFK Jr.