RFK Jr. Joins Trump in Call for Full JFK Disclosure
They seek to overturn Biden's 2023 order on assassination files
From Axios:
Former President Trump will establish an independent presidential commission on assassination attempts if reelected, he announced at an Arizona campaign rally standing alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday.
Trump said he'll task the commission with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Horserace journalists ask, Will Kennedy’s endorsement help Trump? ABC News predicts “minimal impact.” Fox News hopes it will be “huge.”
Historians and political journalists ask: Will Trump actually deliver on the JFK files?
Trump’s initiative would put him at odds with the intelligence community again. The commission would replace President Biden’s “final order” on JFK files of June 2023, in which the White House turned over all decisions about the release of 3,400-plus assassination-related records to the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
When Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, tweeted that Trump should appoint Kennedy as head of the CIA, former agency spokesman Larry Pfeiffer expressed the horror of the intelligence community.
Under Biden’s order the intelligence community can keep JFK records secret indefinitely. Under Trump’s plan that would change
Risks for Kennedy
In subordinating his call for full JFK records disclosure to Trump’s investigation of his own assassination, Kennedy risks putting Trump’s political interests ahead of his own goal. He also invites further conflict with his family over assassination-related material that is still in possession of the Kennedy family.
Trump promised to release all the files in October 2017 but quietly acquiesced to CIA and FBI demands for continuing secrecy around certain records related to CIA operations involving Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin who denied killing JFK and said he was a “patsy” for others. Oswald was killed in police custody before he could explain his defense.
In his campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly expressed his belief that rogue CIA officers were complicit in his uncle’s death, the scenario amply documented in Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien’s popular podcast “Who Killed JFK?” Fact-checking organizations, Politifact and Factcheck.org, have not disputed the accuracy of Reiner and O’Brien’s reporting.
Tucker Carlson’s Source
The contents of the JFK files are explosive, according to Tucker Carlson. Earlier this year the Twitter/X talk show host said former CIA director Mike Pompeo threatened legal action against him if Carlson talked more about his claim that a high-level government source told him the assassination files implicate the CIA in Kennedy’s death.
Carlson was rightly incredulous that a former CIA director suggested that talking about the agency’s possible role in Kennedy’s murder might be considered a crime.
On this issue, I believe Carlson. But when I asked him to share his source, he declined.
What is known is that the withheld JFK files include:
Transcripts of a confidential 1964 interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in which the First Lady disputed the official story of the gunfire that left her husband dead in her arms. The interview is controlled by Kennedy’s cousin, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, whose son has emerged as the family critic of RFK Jr.
a 1961 White House memo on JFK’s plans to reorganize the CIA out of existence—a document that RFK Jr. cited in his campaign.
the personnel file of an undercover officer whose paid agents generated propaganda about Oswald before and after JFK was killed, also cited by RFK Jr.
Surveillance tapes of organized crime boss Carlos Marcello, a sworn enemy of the Kennedys.
The closed door testimony of senior CIA officials to Senate investigators in the 1970s about sensitive operations involving Oswald.
As Reported in JFK Facts
The declassification of CIA files under both Trump and Biden has shed new light on the causes of the assassination.
Oswald was not a “lone nut.” In fact, he was a man of deep interest to top CIA officers opposed to Kennedy’s liberal policies.
The CIA took photos of Oswald six weeks before JFK was killed but never shared them with investigators. This was a JFK Facts exclusive.
One CIA office did not believe the story of a “lone gunman” and investigated JFK’s right-wing enemies instead.
If Trump’s commission results in full JFK disclosure, the results are sure to be newsworthy. The question is whether Trump and Kennedy will deliver on their promise.
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Then why didn’t he do it the first time? Let me guess - he’ll get Mexico to pay for it.
Getting interesting. Sad the the Kennedy family is against truth seeking. Go RFK jr!