Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced Tuesday that the Russian government is preparing to hand over its findings on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — a move she described as a historic breakthrough in one of America’s most enduring mysteries.
Luna said she was informed by the Russian Embassy in Washington that Alexander Darchiev, the Russian ambassador to the United States, will personally deliver a 350-page document outlining Russia’s conclusions about the 1963 assassination. “It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied,” Luna wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.”
Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963, an event that shook the nation and fueled decades of speculation about who was truly responsible. The official U.S. investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but many Americans — and a growing number of lawmakers — have long doubted that conclusion.
Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, has made government transparency a central theme of her work in Congress. In March, she said the widespread public distrust surrounding the Kennedy assassination stemmed from official secrecy. “The reason that you have such an array of theories,” Luna explained, “is because the government was not transparent about it.”
The Russian government’s willingness to share its own records adds a new international dimension to an inquiry that has fascinated both historians and the public for six decades. While it remains unclear what evidence the 350-page report contains, Luna said the transfer represents “the first time in history” that Congress has been granted such access.
The timing of the announcement coincides with renewed momentum in Washington to release long-classified information about major political assassinations of the 1960s.
In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the full declassification of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
On March 18, the Trump administration made public more than 60,000 pages of JFK-related files. Luna praised the move as a landmark step toward accountability. “I applaud President Trump for following through on his promise of transparency to the American people,” she said in a statement that day. “By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, my task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people.”
Public skepticism about the government’s official account remains widespread. According to a Gallup poll released in November 2023, a majority of Americans continue to believe that Oswald did not act alone.
With the Russian documents soon to be in congressional hands, Luna said her task force is preparing to review them alongside the newly declassified U.S. files — part of what she describes as a long-overdue effort to bring full transparency to a case that has lingered unresolved in the American consciousness for more than sixty years.
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