DNI Gabbard Announces Release of 10,000 Pages of RFK Assassination Files, with 50,000 More Found

Name: "DNI Gabbard Announces Release of 10,000 Pages of RFK Assassination Files, with 50,000 More Found"
Uploaded: 2025-04-18
Duration: 1 min 50 s
Description: "Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says 10,000 previously undigitized pages on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination were released under President Trump's transparency executive order, and that over 50,000 additional pages were discovered for a second release, according to the White House upload."

April 18, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:50

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What happened

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — who is not among the officials tracked by name on this site, so this page is tagged with no tracked official — announced the release of files on the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. She said the release came about because President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency, and that one of the first things he did on returning to the Oval Office was issue an executive order to release all documents, unredacted, on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., as she stated it. She said the administration had already made the initial release of previously unredacted documents related to President Kennedy’s assassination, according to her remarks.

Gabbard said the release that day comprised 10,000 pages that had been sitting in boxes within the National Archives, never digitized or viewed publicly before — documents related to the government’s investigation into the assassination, discussions in other countries and State Department cables around the assassination, and the questions and theories posed throughout the investigation, most of which, she said, people have never seen before, as she stated it. The White House description directs viewers to the files at archives.gov/rfk, according to the upload.

Gabbard said the work is not stopping: searchers were sent through warehouses at the FBI and CIA for documents never turned over to the National Archives, and just days earlier they discovered over 50,000 additional pages solely around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, with over 100 people at the National Archives going through and scanning them for a second release coming shortly, as she stated the figures.

Why it matters

Gabbard’s statement quantifies the transparency program’s next tranche on the record — 10,000 pages released that day and over 50,000 more found and being scanned, as she stated it — which is the checkable core of the assassination-files releases.

Sources: The White House, “RELEASE OF RFK ASSASSINATION FILES: DNI Tulsi Gabbard”, 2025-04-18 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-04-18). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.