Kerry Kennedy, daughter of former senator Robert F Kennedy Sr, criticised the Trump administration and her brother, Robert F Kennedy Jr, for releasing records related to her father’s 1968 assassination.
The files, made public on Good Friday, included over 10,000 pages of documents, handwritten notes by convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan, and graphic autopsy images.
Kerry was just eight years old when her father was shot dead at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic primary. “It was hard to be an eight-year-old girl who lost her father to a man with a gun,” she wrote in a heartfelt post on X.. “As of yesterday — Good Friday — it will be hard in a new and unimaginable way.”
She said that the newly released images make it painful for family members to see their father portrayed not as they remembered him, but through disturbing photos of his final moments. Kerry called the release “relentless, callous cruelty,” and linked it to broader Trump-era actions, from deportation cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s to the rollback of protections for transgender Americans.
The document release was led by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who claimed it fulfilled Trump’s promise of “maximum transparency.” Gabbard thanked the Kennedy family for their support, but Kerry clarified, “I did not support this.”
She ended her post by tagging both Gabbard and RFK J., including a photo of herself as a child with her father.
