Trump Admin Releases 10,000 Previously Classified RFK Assassination Files

More than 10,000 pages of previously classified government records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Friday, April 18. The documents, now available online through the National Archives website, were digitized and declassified under a directive from President Donald Trump, who pledged to increase transparency within the intelligence community. The move marks the first public release of federal files specifically concerning RFK’s assassination, which had remained largely inaccessible for decades. Unlike records connected to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, which were mandated to be released under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, materials related to RFK’s killing had never been processed or digitized for public access....