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President Donald Trump vowed to release records “in the coming days” related to assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Important Takeaways:

  • President Donald Trump vowed during his pre-inauguration speech on Sunday night to release records “in the coming days” related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Trump also promised to release records related to “other topics of great public interest,” during the event at Washington, DC’s Capital One Arena.
  • “As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents, and in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other topics of great public interest,” the 45th and 47th president said.
  • “It’s all going to be released, Uncle Sam,” he added.
  • During his campaign, Trump pledged to create a commission on presidential assassination attempts, as a tribute to RFK Jr.
  • “After I was — can’t even believe I have to say this — nearly assassinated in Pennsylvania last month, Bobby called me to express his best wishes. He knows firsthand the risks incurred by leaders who stand up to the corrupt political establishment,” Trump said at the time. “And when you stand up, you bring on some trouble for yourself, but you have to do what’s right. You have to do what’s right for the country. I’ll tell you, we are both in this to do what’s right for the country.”
  • Both Kennedy’s father and uncle were assassinated.
  • “He lost his father and uncle in service to our country, and Bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign, while being denied protection by the Harris-Biden administration,” Trump said. The Biden administration notably only ordered Secret Service protection for RFK Jr. after the Trump assassination attempt and after Trump demanded protection for him.

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Robert F. Kennedy to head up the department of Health and Human Services “Make America Great and Healthy Again”

Important Takeaways:

  • President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy to lead the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department.
  • Trump announced in a written statement on social media:
  • I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!

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Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter dies at family compound in Massachusetts

FILE PHOTO: One of three houses in the Kennedy family compound is seen in Hyannis Port January 23, 1995. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

By Dan Whitcomb and Matthew Lavietes

(Reuters) – One of the granddaughters of the late Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday after an apparent drug overdose at the family’s compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, the family and media reports said.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, was at the compound, the home of her grandmother Ethel Kennedy, when emergency personnel were summoned. She was taken to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis where she was pronounced dead, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office.

“Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse,” the Robert F. Kennedy family said in a statement. “Her life was filled with hope, promise and love.”

The statement quoted her 91-year-old grandmother as saying: “The world is a little less beautiful today.”

A statement from the district attorney’s office said police officers had been called to the compound for “an unresponsive female, later identified as Saoirse Kennedy Hill.”

Two unnamed people described as close to the family were cited as saying that Hill had apparently suffered an overdose, the New York Times reported.

Reuters could not confirm the cause of death with the hospital, authorities or the district attorney’s office on Friday.

Hill was a student at Boston College, where she was a communications major and vice president of the Student Democrats, according to the Times.

The newspaper said she had written about struggling with mental illness while a student at a private preparatory school in Massachusetts, the Deerfield Academy, in 2016.

She was the only child of Paul Michael Hill and Courtney Kennedy Hill, who was the fifth of 11 children of Ethel and Robert Kennedy. Paul Michael Hill was one of the Guildford Four, a group of men wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army in 1974.

Ethel Kennedy has endured a series of tragedies that have befallen her extended family, including the assassination of her husband, then a U.S. senator for New York. Robert Kennedy was shot to death in Los Angeles just after winning the California primary race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

Two of Robert and Ethel’s sons suffered untimely deaths – David, of a drug overdose in 1984 at age 28 and Michael in 1997 at age 39.

Robert Kennedy’s older brother, President John F. Kennedy, was himself assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, and his son, John Jr., died with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999 when the plane he was piloting crashed in the Atlantic off Martha’s Vineyard, not far from Hyannis Port.

Hill’s death comes weeks after the 50th anniversary of a scandal relating to a fatal car accident in which Robert Kennedy’s younger brother, Senator Edward Kennedy, drove off a bridge connecting the tiny island of Chappaquiddick to Martha’s Vineyard, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.

The murky circumstances of that crash effectively dashed Edward Kennedy’s presidential ambitions.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Matthew Lavietes; Additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Michael Perry and Bill Trott)