President Donald Trump vowed transparency in his administration and ordered the declassification of decades-old secret files related to the assassinations of major figures in America, including former U.S. Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., among others.

During a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed to Trump and other officials that she would be releasing documents concerning the RFK and MLK assassinations within "the next few days," as Breitbart reported.

Among those other officials to hear the news of the impending release was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of RFK, who has long called for the secrecy around his father's 1968 murder to be lifted and expressed his gratitude for the announced development.

Gabbard reveals imminent release of files

While addressing Trump and other Cabinet officials during Thursday's White House meeting, DNI Gabbard said, "Lastly, we’ve been scanning -- I’ve had over a hundred people working around the clock to scan the paper around RFK, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination."

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before," she added. "We’ll have those ready to release here in the next few days."

.@DNIGabbard says the documents related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be "ready to release here within the next few days" pic.twitter.com/f1PpFDBfFO

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 10, 2025

"That's great," Trump said as he turned toward HHS Sec. Kennedy and asked, "Bobby, how do you feel about that? That’s hitting close to home, isn't it? I’m thinking about Bobby when that statement was made."

Kennedy initially replied that he was "very gratified" by the news and reiterated that he was "very grateful" for the effort at transparency. Breitbart noted that Trump added toward Gabbard, "And you let Bobby see some of this because, you know, it’s very personal stuff. But it’s time" to release the information because the "world needs to know the truth."

Assassination details recalled

In June 1968, less than five years after the November 1963 assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy Jr., then Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Sr. (D-NY) was shot and killed by an assassin at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Kennedy had just finished up a celebration of his victory in the California Democratic Party primary election and was well on his way to winning the Democratic presidential nomination that year, when he was murdered by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian activist who reportedly hated Kennedy for his pro-Israel stance.

The senator was hit multiple times at close range with bullets from the assassin's .22-caliber revolver while five others around him were also wounded, and despite the valiant efforts of doctors to save him, Kennedy died from his mortal wounds the following day.

Gabbard creates task force

Just a few days before that Cabinet meeting announcement, DNI Gabbard announced in a press release the creation of a special task force known as the Director’s Initiatives Group, or DIG, that was focused on fulfilling President Trump's Intelligence Community-related orders, including the declassification of certain assassination-related records.

"In order to rebuild trust in the Intelligence Community and execute the tasks required by President Trump’s intelligence-related Executive Orders, I established the Director’s Initiatives Group to bring about transparency and accountability across the IC," Gabbard said in a statement. "We are already identifying wasteful spending in real time, streamlining outdated processes, reviewing documents for declassification, and leading ongoing efforts to root out abuses of power and politicization."

"President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency and accountability," she added. "We are committed to executing the President’s vision and focusing the Intelligence Community on its core mission: ensuring our security by providing the President and policymakers with timely, apolitical, objective, relevant intelligence to inform their decision-making to ensure the safety, security, and freedom of the American people."