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Robert Kennedy's daughter describes "pain" of seeing released autopsy photos: "I do not support this"

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22nd April, 2025 04:00 IST

Washington DC - Robert F. Kennedy's daughter Kerry on Saturday described the "pain" she and her family felt on seeing photos of her father's autopsy after his 1968 assassination.

image On June 6, 1988 Ethel Kennedy (c.), surrounded by her children and grandchildren, lays flowers on the grave of her husband Senator Robert Kennedy, marking the 20th anniversary of his assassination at a sunset mass at Arlington Cemetery. © RENATO ROTOLO / AFP

President signed in January to declassify remaining secret files on the 1960s killings of President John F. Kennedy, his younger brother and former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Following the Friday release, remembering her father "will be hard in a new and unimaginable way," Kerry Kennedy to X.

"We won't just see him as we remember him. Instead, we'll be confronted with graphic, explicit photos of his mangled body from an autopsy report," she added.

Trump had said in January that "everything will be revealed" as he ordered the records released, in an apparent bid to clear up .

The Republican leader had accepted redactions over national security concerns in a tranche of archives he ordered released during his first term, but later promised the full records.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard had Friday, also on X, that she was "honored... to lead the declassification efforts and to shine a long-overdue light on the truth."

The 10,000 pages relating to Robert Kennedy released this week will be followed by a further 50,000 discovered "in the course of searching FBI and CIA warehouses," Gabbard added.

Kennedy's son has become close to Trump and is now serving as his Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The younger Kennedy the official conclusion that Jordanian-born Sirhan Sirhan – convicted of RFK's June 1968 murder – fired the fatal shot, and he has pressed Trump to release all remaining information.

Sirhan, who was apprehended in the hotel where the 42-year-old Kennedy was shot, .

Kennedy family turns against Robert F. Kennedy as he repeats belief in assassination conspiracy image This June 22, 1966 photo shows Senator Robert F. Kennedy (l.) and President Lyndon B. (r.) Johnson during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. © PHOTO/HO/National Archives

Some conspiracy theorists have suggested that a second gunman fired the fatal shot, but a voluminous review by the FBI concluded that "the overwhelming evidence underscores the fact that Sirhan Sirhan was the sole assassin."

Kennedy on Friday that he did not "expect there would be a smoking gun in any of this" to back his theory of CIA involvement in his father's murder.

He acknowledged to the Post that "it was an agonizing choice for me" when Trump asked him whether the autopsy photos should be included.

But "the public interest in full disclosure outweighs " he said.

DNI Gabbard on Friday offered her "deepest thanks for Bobby Kennedy and his families' support."

But Kerry Kennedy, in her post on X, wrote, "I did not support this."

She took a broader swipe at the Trump administration, under which she said "countless others are suffering even more" than the Kennedys.

Kerry Kennedy pointed especially to deported to El Salvador, laid-off federal workers, and people fearing for their rights.

"The Trump administration may think they can , but we will rise from it, louder and fiercer than ever," she wrote.

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