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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,325 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:13 PM 21 hrs ago

10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order

Source: Associated Press, via WTOP

10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination are released, on Trump’s order

The Associated Press
April 18, 2025, 11:51 AM


FILE - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks to campaign workers, June 5, 1968, as his wife Ethel, left, and California campaign manager and speaker of the California Assembly, Jesse Unruh, look on, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. ... Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving a speech celebrating his victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison.

The files included pictures of handwritten notes by the gunman. ... “RFK must be disposed of like his brother was,” was written on the outside of an empty envelope with the return address from the district director of the Internal Revenue Service in Los Angeles.

The National Archives and Records Administration posted 229 files containing the pages to its public website. Many files related to the assassination had been previously released, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in federal government storage facilities. ... Nearly 60 years after the assassination, “the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump,” Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement. ... The release of the files shines “a long-overdue light on the truth,” Gabbard added.

The release comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were disclosed. Those documents gave curious readers more details about Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.

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Associated Press Writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.

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10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 21 hrs ago OP
Transparency but let DOGE dismember our institutions and rights in secret bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #1
Distraction action. Squirrel, squirrel!! nt Tadpole Raisin 21 hrs ago #3
Just last year I saw in the news a Palestinian group who infuriated me... Archae 21 hrs ago #2
Where are the Epstein files? tulipsandroses 21 hrs ago #4
How about releasing Mueller's, Smith's and Epstein's files un redacted. republianmushroom 20 hrs ago #5
I really don't care. Autumn 20 hrs ago #6
Well, some of still do. Especially when Paul Schaude (labor leader with him) said there were more bullets in the pantry' electric_blue68 20 hrs ago #7
Nothing that is released will change anything. The people involved are dead and gone. Autumn 19 hrs ago #8
SQUIRRELL! 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #9
The usual pointless nonsense and deflection Prairie Gates 16 hrs ago #10
Squirrel! mahina 10 hrs ago #11
The Far Right wanted JFK eliminated... AntiFascist 8 hrs ago #12

bucolic_frolic

(49,811 posts)
1. Transparency but let DOGE dismember our institutions and rights in secret
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:19 PM
21 hrs ago

That press is broken. AP is supposed to do better than this.

Archae

(47,101 posts)
2. Just last year I saw in the news a Palestinian group who infuriated me...
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:19 PM
21 hrs ago

They called Sirhan Sirhan a "hero" and a "martyr" and said RFK deserved to die for "being a Zionist."

There still are far too many in the Middle East who want violence just for the sake of violence.

Hamas
Hezbollah
Iran
ISIS

Etc...

republianmushroom

(19,488 posts)
5. How about releasing Mueller's, Smith's and Epstein's files un redacted.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 01:08 PM
20 hrs ago

One man, 3 files that the govt. won't release un redacted. More than 40 million dollars of investigation kept under wraps.

All three files were protected by Merrick the Meek.

electric_blue68

(20,848 posts)
7. Well, some of still do. Especially when Paul Schaude (labor leader with him) said there were more bullets in the pantry'
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 01:49 PM
20 hrs ago

walls than chambers in Sirhan's gun.

American Histrory was irrevocably changed losing Sen RFK.
Martin, too, that year.

Autumn

(47,713 posts)
8. Nothing that is released will change anything. The people involved are dead and gone.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:06 PM
19 hrs ago
I used to want to know but I'm past all of it.

Prairie Gates

(4,860 posts)
10. The usual pointless nonsense and deflection
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 05:28 PM
16 hrs ago

Trying to feed the conspiracy monster because it is one of their strongest weapons against reasonableness and truth, their most feared enemies.

AntiFascist

(13,227 posts)
12. The Far Right wanted JFK eliminated...
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 01:34 AM
8 hrs ago

Anything or anyone implicating the Far Right has either been shredded, deleted, dodged, liquidated, or is now dead of natural causes.

RFK was to use the results of an investigation into the death of JFK, together with his own vast right-wing conspiracy theory, to further his candidacy for President. When RFK was subsequently murdered, this material was ushered off to Europe and only published in French, under the title L'Amerique Brule.

I'm sure that anything released by the government at this point has been carefully sanitized.

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