Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a photo on X of former President John F. Kennedy on the 61st anniversary of his assassination and a cryptic message suggesting that the government is withholding the truth about his uncle’s death.
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society,” Kennedy wrote, with the inclusion of a photo of him as a young child with the former president.
Kennedy has long accused the federal government of being involved in his uncle’s assassination, and he has repeatedly called for the government to declassify thousands of documents produced during the investigation into his murder. The federal government has released millions of pages of documents surrounding the investigation into the assassination as mandated in 2017.
However, there are approximately 500 pages of documents that have been completely withheld.
During his reelection campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised to release the remaining documents. He previously made this promise back in 2017, but he walked it back after hearing the appeals from the FBI and CIA that declassifying some records posed a national security risk.
With Kennedy as Trump’s nominee for health and human services secretary, the pair have grown closer — possibly pushing Trump to follow through with his promise to release the remaining documents.
The Warren Commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson a year after the assassination, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
However, conspiracy theories have long been entertained that there was another person involved, that the CIA was behind the 35th president’s death, and countless other variations.
Kennedy himself is skeptical of the Warren Commission’s findings and has said the CIA was involved.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder,” Kennedy said in an interview last year with John Catsimatidis on New York City radio station WABC 770. “I think it’s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.”
Kennedy suggested that the CIA was motivated to kill his uncle because he refused to engage in war with Vietnam.
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“He refused,” Kennedy said. “He said that the job of the American presidency is to keep the nation out of war.”
Kennedy recounted that his father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, called the CIA to question whether it was behind his brother’s death.