RFK Jr.: ‘It’s Very Disturbing’ That Biden Refused to Release More JFK Assasination Docs

President Joe Biden is keeping thousands of JFK assassination secret as part of a “Transparency Plan,” drawing fire from historians, researchers as well as his Democratic primary opponent – a nephew of the president murdered nearly 60 years ago today.

“It’s very disturbing,” Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., told The Messenger in an interview. “They’re pouring the concrete on 60-year-old secrets so that they’re permanently interred. Why?”

Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy and son of Robert F. Kennedy, is running for the Democratic nomination against Biden.

Biden’s spokespeople won’t answer why they didn’t release more documents than they did with a late Friday news dump. Biden’s order says “postponement [of releasing the documents] remains necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”

Tens of thousands of JFK documents have been released under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. It passed Congress unanimously after the release of the movie JFK, which raised doubts about the lone gunman theory that posited accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald had no help in shooting Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963. Two days later, a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald and also allegedly acted alone.

An estimated 4,000 of the nation’s most closely guarded JFK secrets are still hidden from public view, according to JFK researchers with the Mary Ferrell Foundation, largest nonprofit repository of the assassination documents in the nation. It sued the administration to make all the documents public.

Experts say there’s no “smoking gun” revealing a government plot to kill Kennedy.

In December, Biden’s administration released thousands of records but also issued a memorandum establishing a “Transparency Plan” that would essentially delegate his authority to the National Declassification Center at the National Archives and Records Administration, which is in charge of JFK records.

“This language about a Transparency Plan is Orwellian. It’s not just an irrational process. It’s the opposite of what they claim. This isn’t transparency. This is hiding,” said Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, “They released this on Friday night before the Fourth of July weekend. They’re trying to bury this. They know this stinks.”

RFK Jr. said there’s still too much government secrecy, regardless of administration. Widely criticized for his anti-vaccine views, Kennedy said he only talks on the campaign trail about that issue or his uncle’s assassination when asked. 

But there’s a clear distinction between the two controversies: most Americans are pro-vaccine, and 70 percent believe that the federal government should release the JFK records. Over the years, majorities and pluralities of Americans have believed there was a conspiracy surrounding the murder of the former president.

“The only plausible explanation for the continued secrecy is to protect the institutional interests,” Kennedy said. “And that’s very, very disturbing.”

The foundation says the CIA is withholding most of the records at issue; some concern shadowy agents who came into contact with Oswald before the shooting. Other records concern Defense Department plans to stage false flag attacks on U.S. soil to justify an invasion of Cuba to topple the communist dictator at the time, Fidel Castro.

A hearing in the foundation’s lawsuit is scheduled for July 13. The government wants to dismiss the case.

Under the JFK records act, the federal government was supposed to release all documents concerning the assassination in 2017, during Trump’s term. But Trump broke his promise to make all the documents public. He released some records but delayed full disclosure until 2021, leaving the decision to Biden who has also released documents but not all of them.

Trump, running again against Biden, told The Messenger in May that he would release all the records if elected president.

Echoing other historians and researchers, Morley said Biden’s actions shows that “decisions about classified documents are sometimes completely capricious. Some people get the book thrown at them, like Trump – because he deserves it. But in other cases, there’s a pass: ‘oh, it’s ok. The president can do whatever he wants.’ Biden’s argument with the JFK records is similar to Trump’s argument: I can do what I want because I’m president. It’s not exactly the same. But it’s the same impulse.”

Author David Talbot, also a Trump critic, agreed.

“I guess following the law on classified documents is important when Trump takes them, but when it comes to JFK records we have no rights,” said Talbot, author of “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years” and “The Devil’s Chessboard,” concerning the rise of the national security state.

“Joe Biden is a creature of the national security state,” he said. “He’s doing their bidding by delaying the release of these records that are supposed to be the property of the American people. It’s outrageous.”

Gerald Posner, author of the book “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK,” said it’s wild to think that Ruby and Oswald’s tax records still have not been released – but Trump’s were after a battle with a Democratic Congress.

“We may all disagree and be at loggerheads over who killed Kennedy. But this is one of the areas of bipartisan agreement. Republicans and Democrats agree. And Trump and Biden both agreed not to release all of the JFK files. It’s maddening,” Posner said.

“It’s insulting to anyone who cares about truth in this case because the Biden White House intentionally released it on a Friday night before what’s basically a long holiday weekend,” he said. “No one disagrees that all the files should have been released a long time ago. It’s to the shame of all of us.”