Tulsi Gabbard orders 'unprecedented' release of MLK assassination files



As the Trump administration continues to grapple with the botched Epstein file release, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has stepped up to the plate.

On Monday, Gabbard released over 230,000 pages of documents related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order. This "unprecedented" release includes information about the FBI's investigation, the "discussion of potential leads," internal memos, documents from James Earl Ray’s former cellmate, as well as "never-before-seen" CIA records pertaining to the case.

'The declassification and release of these documents are a historic step towards the truth.'

“The American people have waited nearly sixty years to see the full scope of the federal government’s investigation into Dr. King’s assassination,” Gabbard said in a joint statement. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are ensuring that no stone is left unturned in our mission to deliver complete transparency on this pivotal and tragic event in our nation’s history. I extend my deepest appreciation to the King family for their support.”

“The American people deserve answers decades after the horrific assassination of one of our nation’s great leaders," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in the statement. "The Department of Justice is proud to partner with Director Gabbard and the ODNI at President Trump’s direction for this latest disclosure.”

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Although some documents were previously made public, the ODNI will for the first time digitize and publish the records online "with minimal redactions for privacy reasons." In accordance with Trump's executive order, the only documents to have previously been digitized were those related to former President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

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"I am grateful to President Trump and DNI Gabbard for delivering on their pledge of transparency in the release of these documents on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.," Dr. Alveda King said in the statement. "My uncle lived boldly in pursuit of truth and justice, and his enduring legacy of faith continues to inspire Americans to this day. While we continue to mourn his death, the declassification and release of these documents are a historic step towards the truth that the American people deserve."

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Landau brothers’ JFK assassination tour unearths mob secrets and dark Dallas truths



In a recent installment of “Normal World,” Dave Landau and his twin brother, Mike, embarked on a grimly humorous yet surprisingly insightful exploration of the exact site where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Cruising through downtown Dallas in a replica of JFK’s Lincoln Continental, they followed the precise motorcade path from November 22, 1963, navigating from Dealey Plaza to the grassy knoll and beyond.

Led by local expert Robin Brown of JFK Custom Tours, Dave and Mike delve into one of America’s most debated and mysterious atrocities. From Jack Ruby’s notorious strip club opposite the upscale Adolphus Hotel to the inconsistencies in the Warren Commission’s report and the “magic bullet” hypothesis, the duo cover it all. They question whether Lee Harvey Oswald operated solo, the true movements of the car during the attack, and the curious connections between mob figures and those close to JFK.

In Brown’s opinion, “Oswald had nothing to do with [Kennedy’s assassination].” As they drive past the notorious sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald supposedly fired the shots that killed Kennedy, Brown says, “I know where Oswald is when Kennedy arrives, and he's nowhere near that window.”

On the contrary, “there’s a shooting team in that window,” he says. “Kennedy's enemies don't need Oswald to participate in the execution. They need someone to take the blame.”

As the crew passes the building that used to house Jack Ruby’s strip club — the Carousel Club — Brown reveals that the joint was strategically positioned across the street from the Adolphus, Dallas’ most prestigious hotel, so that businessmen looking for “a little trouble” need only to cross the road to find it.

“Is it thought that Ruby was also a CIA operative?” asks Dave.

“That is correct,” says Brown, noting that Ruby’s original name was “Jacob Rubenstein” before he changed it in 1947.

Brown then gives a detailed description of Abraham Zapruder’s camera angles. Zapruder was the Dallas dress manufacturer who filmed the famous 26-second "Zapruder film" capturing President Kennedy’s assassination.

As they pass the very spot where Kennedy was hit with the first bullet, Brown says that Kennedy’s car, which was moving at a “crawling” pace due to the large crowds, continued to move slowly even after he was hit with the first bullet in the throat. It was only after the second shot that the car roared away.

Dave then reveals a gruesome fact he learned on the tour: “After Kennedy was shot, Jackie O. was picking up parts of her husband's skull off the back of the car. She went over to the hospital where they had JFK, with brains in her hand, completely shaken, grief-stricken, and in shock, and asked the doctor, ‘Will this help?’ trying to hand him a bunch of brains that she had collected.”

He then points to the grassy knoll where Zapruder was filming. According to theory, a shadowy figure, often called the"Badge Man," was standing behind the fence on the knoll. Many believe this is who really shot Kennedy.

Mike, standing in the same place as the alleged Badge Man, looks across the street to the giant X marking the spot of the fatal shot. He can’t deny that it’s “an absolute perfect shot.”

Some believe this shadowy figure was notorious Chicago mobster and hit man Charles "Chucky" Nicoletti, who was known for his involvement in numerous gangland murders and strongly suspected to be a CIA informant, while others argue that Nicoletti was in the Texas Book Depository building (where Oswald supposedly was) and operated as a second shooter in a CIA plot to kill the president. The Warren Commission, however, doesn’t even mention Nicoletti in the reports.

“The Warren Commission, what they put out was so ridiculous,” says Dave. “I don’t think anybody believes the real story.”

Standing on the large X in the middle of the street, Dave peers up at the notorious window where Oswald reportedly fired both shots. “It doesn’t make sense,” he says. “Talk about a nightmare on Elm Street.”

To see the brothers’ tour and hear their take on more JFK conspiracy theories, watch the video above.

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Trump’s JFK Files Release Is About Restoring Americans’ Trust In Government

The release of the JFK files was never about solving a conspiracy. It was about ushering in a new era of government transparency.

The Kennedy assassination isn’t history — it’s a warning



Ben Shapiro recently asked, “Does it really matter who shot John F. Kennedy?” My answer is “yes and no.” If the question concerns whether finding out who shot Kennedy is the most pressing issue facing our country, I concur with Shapiro that the answer is clearly “no.”

But the release of 80,000 previously unseen documents isn’t just about who killed JFK. It’s about a long-standing pattern of deception, manipulation, and lawlessness from the highest levels of government — and that is one of the most pressing issues facing our country today.

The moment we stop asking questions is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption.

For over 60 years, the official narrative surrounding Kennedy’s assassination has been that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled off a near-impossible series of shots. The improbability of his success is heightened by puzzling facts, such as KGB reports that Oswald was a horrible marksman coupled with his subpar rifle.

This is the story we’ve been told to accept without question. But what we now know raises deeply troubling questions about what really happened and, more importantly, why the government is so determined to keep the whole truth from us.

Cracks in the narrative

The recent document release didn’t give us a smoking gun, but it did confirm a pattern of CIA malfeasance that should alarm every American.

We now have solid evidence that the CIA was running illegal domestic espionage operations — including spying on Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee in 1964. If the intelligence agencies were willing to illegally surveil a major political figure back then, what do you think they’re capable of now?

The unchecked power of our intelligence agencies did not begin or end with the Kennedy assassination — it is a systemic issue that continues to this day.

For decades, the intelligence community has fought transparency at every turn. Each time a president promises to release the complete JFK files, the CIA steps in to block key documents.

The most recent example came under President Biden, when CIA Director William Burns personally urged the White House to keep certain records classified. Burns, notably, was one of several government officials who met with Jeffrey Epstein — three times.

The same agency now citing “national security” concerns over files from the 1960s is the same one tied to Epstein. That connection alone should raise serious questions for every American.

Corruption beyond JFK

This pattern of deception extends far beyond the Kennedy assassination.

We’ve seen it in Benghazi, where Americans died, and the truth was buried under bureaucratic stonewalling. We saw it in the aftermath of 9/11, when former FBI agents alleged that the CIA was running an illegal domestic spy ring and even attempted to recruit two of the hijackers before the attack. And we’ve seen it in the blatant weaponization of intelligence agencies against political opponents — from the Russia collusion hoax to the unprecedented persecution of a sitting and former president.

In recent memory, critical evidence regarding the truth of what happened on January 6 — including text messages from Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail — mysteriously disappeared. Or COVID-19, where intelligence agencies, including Britain’s MI6, have now admitted it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet for years, anyone who dared suggest such a possibility was smeared as a conspiracy theorist.

Always ask questions

Asking questions — whether it be about JFK’s assassination, Benghazi, COVID-19, or any other “conspiracy theory” — is critical. The moment we stop is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption. Rebuilding trust in our institutions begins with asking the right questions and identifying the infection to provide the proper remedy.

The intelligence community has operated with impunity for decades because we, the American people, have been conditioned to accept its narratives without question. The JFK files are not just about a 62-year-old assassination; they are a case study in how deep-state corruption endures and evolves.

If the CIA had nothing to hide, why is the agency still hiding it?

We need to rebuild trust in our institutions — not through blind faith but through real accountability.

America’s founders didn’t place their trust in government officials. They trusted the system of checks and balances designed to limit power. Those safeguards have eroded, but they can be restored.

We don’t need to believe in bureaucrats. We need a system that exposes the truth, prosecutes wrongdoing, and applies justice equally. Until that happens, public distrust will grow — and for good reason.

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Trump releases the JFK files — but are we getting the whole truth?



Eighty thousand documents — that’s what the Trump administration just dumped on the American people.

Yesterday, Donald Trump delivered on one of his campaign promises: to release the sealed government files relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But let’s be real: Are we really supposed to believe that those who controlled the files will give us anything that will lead to any real answers? Or is this just another round of obfuscation, another carefully orchestrated release designed to bury the truth in an avalanche of paper and PDFs?

The CIA was actively shaping media narratives decades ago.

My team spent the last 24 hours combing through the first batch. Let’s break it down.

What’s new?

One of the biggest revelations from the JFK files concerns a 1967 memo, which references a CIA operative and former U.S. Army captain named John Garrett (“Gary”) Underhill. According to this document, Underhill fled Washington in a panic the day after JFK’s assassination, confiding in a friend that a “small clique within the U.S.” was responsible for Kennedy’s murder.

Six months later, Underhill was found dead. The official ruling — with little surprise — was suicide.

Another document reveals that the KGB closely monitored Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in the Soviet Union — and interestingly, the files suggest Oswald was a poor shot during target practice there. A Soviet man even contacted the British Embassy in 1963, claiming that Oswald had been planning to kill the president. This man said he warned American officials, but nothing was done.

If we take these documents at face value, the message is clear: Our government, at best, was stunningly incompetent.

Arguably, one of the most disturbing patterns to emerge from the JFK files is the CIA’s extensive domestic operations. One document details covert operations conducted from multiple U.S. cities, including wiretapping and media manipulation, indicating that the CIA was actively shaping media narratives decades ago.

What’s next?

My team is still sorting through this mountain of documents, and there will be more to come. But if the latest debacle with the released Epstein files is any indication, we won’t find the smoking gun — at least not immediately.

We’ll see more evidence of what we’ve suspected all along: The deep state will stop at nothing to cover its tracks, whether by suppressing confidential documents or dumping 80,000 documents that bury the truth.

Next week on my show, we’ll go even deeper into these findings. Until then, remember: Don’t just accept what the government hands you. Think. Question. And never stop searching for the truth.

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JFK docs: Internet makes hay of suicided spook's supposed confession that CIA killed Kennedy



President Donald Trump made good on another campaign promise this week with the release of thousands of additional files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. By 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 2,182 files totaling 63,400 pages were uploaded to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration's website in accordance with Trump's Jan. 23 executive order.

Academics, amateur sleuths, and others keen for additional insights into precisely what happened on Nov. 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza are currently poring over the documents. Already, a few files have stood out, including a provocative document that wasn't exactly a secret.

Numerous influencers seized upon the document numbered 104-10170-10145 in the latest tranche as new proof that the Central Intelligence Agency allegedly killed a sitting president.

The contents of the document — a July 19, 1967, CIA memo marked secret — consist of excerpts from a June 1967 article in Ramparts, a now-defunct leftist magazine that was deeply antagonistic of the CIA and suspected by the FBI of "acting as the agent of a foreign principal" during the Cold War, along with notes about the persons and allegations referenced in the article. The allegations contained therein were discussed at length in a Playboy interview with a district attorney months later.

'They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique.'

The Ramparts article noted that John Garrett Underhill Jr., better known as Gary Underhill, "left Washington in a hurry" following the assassination, then showed up to a friend's house in New Jersey in an agitated state. Underhill, who served with the Military Intelligence Service during World War II and then worked on special projects for the CIA, supposedly told his friends that a cabal of CIA agents was responsible for the assassination and indicated that he feared for his life. Six months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound in his Washington apartment — this, Ramparts noted, was ruled a suicide.

According to the excerpt of the article included in the memo:

The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband, and manipulating political intrigue to serve its own ends. Kennedy supposedly got wind that something was going on and was killed before he could "blow the whistle on it." Although the friends had always known Underhill to be perfectly rational and objective, they at first didn't take his account seriously. "I think the main reason was," explains the husband, "that we couldn't believe that the CIA could contain a corrupt element every bit as ruthless — and more efficient — as the mafia."

The article noted further that Underhill was on a first-name basis with senior officials both in the Pentagon and the CIA and served as one of the agency's "'un-people' who perform special assignments." The leftist magazine spiced things up with the suggestion that Underhill had also been a one-time friend of Samuel Cummings of Interarmco, "the arms broker that numbers among its customers the CIA, and, ironically, Klein's Sporting Gods of Chicago, from whence [sic] the mail-order Carcano allegedly was purchased by Oswald."

Before meeting with Jim Garrison, a district attorney from Louisiana who investigated the assassination, Underhill was found dead in his apartment with a bullet wound behind his left ear. His death certificate stated he "shot self in head with automatic pistol" on May 8, 1964.

The wound's location behind Underhill's left ear has prompted some suspicion it wasn't actually a suicide, especially since Asher Brynes, his writing partner who found his body, indicated that "Underhill was right-handed," according to the Ramparts article.

Paul Ogle, apparently an old friend of Underhill's, indicated in a letter months after the apparent suicide that, "Gary had been, for a short time, under psychiatric treatment about a year and a half ago. He unfortunately, did not carry on with it and deteriorated to quite an extent."

'I don't believe it and I don't disbelieve it.'

The agency memo provides some of its records on Underhill and Cummings, noting, for instance, that "CIA memoranda of February and October 1949 show that there was interest by the New York office of OO, Contacts Division, in using [Underhill] as a contact for foreign intelligence. Name checks were conducted with various military members of the intelligence community, but these yielded insufficient information, and OO was advised that contact should be developed with caution, on a limited basis, and that Subject was not to receive information classified higher than confidential."

Underhill had apparently also brought the CIA's attention to photographs of Soviet military subjects that a man named Herman Axelbank was trying to sell in 1949.

The memo indicated that Cummings also worked for the CIA, "traveled abroad extensively, buying foreign weapons," bought weapons for the CIA "intended for resistance elements behind the Iron Curtain," and "engaged in sharp practices in his conduct of business and was also extremely difficult to control."

According to the memo, the Office of Security "recommended against [Cummings'] use by Domestic Contact Service as a source, and in December 1964 the CI Staff advised that it had no operational interest in Subject."

Citing the memo, the popular X account Geiger Capital concluded, "The CIA assassinated JFK, the sitting President of the United States."

ZeroHedge shared the document, writing, "Interesting."

"This seems to be the biggest doc so far from the JFK files," wrote Joshua Philipp, a senior reporter at the Epoch Times.

Underhill's story similarly appeared to be news to evangelical media personality Lance Wallnau, who tweeted, "From the JFK data dump, we have a mysterious death of a CIA whistleblower who believed the agency was involved with the assassination."

Although many online were quick to pounce on the memo, it contains virtually nothing revelatory about Underhill's allegations and demise, which were discussed in Garrison's October 1967 interview with Playboy.

When asked whether he believed Underhill was murdered, Garrison said, "I don't believe it and I don't disbelieve it. All I know is that witnesses with vital evidence in this case are certainly bad insurance risks. In the absence of further and much more conclusive evidence to the contrary, however, we must assume that the plotters were acting on their own rather than on CIA orders when they killed the President."

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GOP rep to head task force to declassify JFK files, Epstein client list



Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced Tuesday that she was appointed to chair a new task force aimed at declassifying federal secrets.

The task force will focus on declassifying records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Luna will also be investigating materials pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's client list, documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the origins of COVID-19, and UFOs.

'This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve.'

"For far too long, the federal government has not answered these questions," Chairman James Comer, who appointed Luna to the post, said during a press conference Tuesday. "This creates distrust in our institutions. That ends today."

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna talks to reporters following a House Republican caucus meeting in the basement of the US Capitol on December 20, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance or send strongly worded letters," Luna said during the press conference. "This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve. We will cut through the bureaucracy, challenge the stonewalling, and ensure that the American people finally get the truth that they have been denied for far too long."

This task force emerged following President Donald Trump's historic executive order requiring the declassification of documents related to the assassinations of King and the Kennedys. Since then, the FBI has uncovered over 2,400 records tied to the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Trump orders release of JFK assassination files



President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise on Thursday to order the release of the classified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

In addition to those files, he ordered the declassification of files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and that of Robert F. Kennedy.

The assassinations have been endlessly scrutinized, leading to speculation and conspiracy theories.

Here's the order:

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Here's a video of Trump signing the assassination declassification order:

This is a developing story, and additional information may be added.

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Trump Should Immediately Stop Federal Agencies From Hiding Documents By Needlessly Marking Them Classified

Files should be open to the public unless otherwise specified, not secret by default. We the people have a right to know what our government does in our name, and to know our own history.

‘Conspiracy central’: Is the government COVERING UP the truth about the Trump assassination attempt?



Over a month has passed since the Trump assassination attempt and still, nothing seems to add up.

Not only did Trump’s Secret Service bodyguards fail to protect him, but he was denied more security despite a known Iranian threat. Even if it’s all just sheer incompetence, it’s still incredibly troubling.

“One of the things I worry about is the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which exposed how the paper tiger of the Secret Service, how they were not the James Bonds of the world,” investigative journalist and author Gerald Posner tells Glenn Beck.

Posner believes this “might encourage a copycat” who realizes that “the system is vulnerable.”

However, Glenn isn’t so sure that it can just be chalked up to incompetence — and that the system might be working just as it’s supposed to.

“This is conspiracy central,” Glenn comments. “Everything the government is doing, everything the Secret Service is doing, the FBI, is not normal. And if you don’t want conspiracy theories, they’re acting exactly the wrong way.”

“You hit the nail on the head,” Posner agrees. “The government in this case is not only hiding information from the American public, from investigators, from researchers, we’re getting some members in Congress who are getting whistleblowers who are coming forward.”

“That’s not the way to get information when the former president of the United States came within an inch of being killed,” he continues. “They should have learned from the Kennedy assassination; they didn’t. They should have learned from the King assassination, cover-ups do not work well.”

“And it doesn’t have to be the cover-up of a murder. It’s just the cover-up of the truth,” he adds.


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