Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, has lashed out at CNN for its coverage of the release of over 80,000 pages of secret documents related to his grandfather's assassination. In a video posted to X from the gym, Schlossberg, wearing a hoodie, said: 'You're better than this, this is so f***ing stupid. There's so much actual news going on.'
President Donald Trump ordered the release of the documents, which were posted on the National Archives website on Thursday evening. Trump had earlier promised to declassify the files, calling the trove 'interesting' but giving little indication of their contents. The release also includes documents related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Historians have criticised the release as disorganised and difficult to parse. David J. Garrow, a historian, told the New York Times that 'this dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones,' adding that it would take him two days just to open all the files. John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault also complained about the lack of organisation.
Jonathan Eig, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, expressed scepticism that the files would reveal anything new about the MLK assassination. 'I would be very surprised if there was some kind of smoking gun, or revelation of an alternate assassin,' he said. Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noted that his team has a 'long, long list' of sensitive documents they are looking for, particularly those involving Cuba and the CIA's activities regarding Lee Harvey Oswald.
Trump celebrated the release on Truth Social, posting a screenshot of a statement by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said the drop ushered in 'a new era of transparency.'
