Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his total support of the decision of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to declassify documents that have to do with the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.
“I think it’s a great move because they need to have more transparency in our government and he’s keeping his promise to have the government tell the truth to the American people about everything,” Kennedy, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, told reporters.
RFK Jr., an ally and appointee of President Donald Trump, had formerly accused the CIA of having involvement in the former president’s demise, claiming that his late uncle was killed because he did not agree to commit U.S. forces to Vietnam.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder,” Kennedy said in a 2023 interview with John Catsimatidis on New York City radio station WABC 770. “I think it’s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.”
“When my uncle was president, he was surrounded by a military-industrial complex and intelligence apparatus that was constantly trying to get him to go to war in Laos, Vietnam, etc.,” Kennedy told Catsimatidis.
“He refused. He said that the job of the American presidency is to keep the nation out of war.”
The CIA, in their response, had many times denied the allegation, claiming that Lee Harvey Oswald was not one of its officers.
While the move was supported by Donald Trump, Jack Schlossberg, a grandson of the late former president, disagreed with the declassification of the documents. Schlossberg labeled it a politically motivated move.
“The truth is a lot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” Schlossberg posted to social platform X.
“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back,” he added. “There’s nothing heroic about it.”
