# Deadline to submit release plan proposal for RFK, MLK files | Fox News

### Weekends after Epstein file fallout, a new deadline looms in the release of the RFK and MLK files

The lack of new material prompted an outcry and criticism of the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files

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Published March 9, 2025 11:40am EDT

### AG Pam Bondi on Epstein files: 'The public has a right to know'

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi addresses unmet expectations surrounding the Epstein files on 'Hannity.'

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Sunday marks the second deadline in an effort to release the RFK and MLK assassination files, just weeks after the fallout from the highly anticipated release of the Epstein files by the .

In light of President 's executive order in January to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., the director of national intelligence (DNI) and other officials were expected to submit their proposed release plans for the RFK and MLK files on March 9.

DNI and the attorney general were previously given a Feb. 7 deadline to submit their release plans for the JFK files.





The RFK and MLK release plan deadline comes just weeks after the Justice Department revealed a batch of  files in late February. Many of the documents publicized then had already been released during the federal criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former lover and convicted accomplice.

The lack of new material prompted an outcry and criticism of the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files – and questions about what the RFK and MLK documents could hold upon their release.

Gerald Posner, author of "Case Closed," told Fox News Digital at the time that he expects "there will be news in there, but it's not going to be something that turns upside down our understanding of what really happened with those cases."



Trump's declassification executive order came after he promised to declassify the documents upon entering his second term while on the campaign trail, saying at the time, "When I return to , I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth."





"I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents," Bondi wrote. "Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein."

Bondi told Fox News' Sean Hannity last week that the DOJ had received a "truckload" of Epstein files from the FBI following the Friday 8 a.m. deadline she had imposed on the agency.

_Fox News' David Spunt and Jake Gibson contributed to this report._

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