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. Kennedys 1968 assassination are released, on Trumps 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 Californias 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 governments 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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bucolic_frolic
(49,811 posts)That press is broken. AP is supposed to do better than this.
Tadpole Raisin
(1,742 posts)Archae
(47,101 posts)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...
tulipsandroses
(7,175 posts)When will they be released?
republianmushroom
(19,488 posts)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.
Autumn
(47,713 posts)electric_blue68
(20,848 posts)walls than chambers in Sirhan's gun.
American Histrory was irrevocably changed losing Sen RFK.
Martin, too, that year.
Autumn
(47,713 posts)
2naSalit
(96,423 posts)Prairie Gates
(4,860 posts)Trying to feed the conspiracy monster because it is one of their strongest weapons against reasonableness and truth, their most feared enemies.
mahina
(19,693 posts)AntiFascist
(13,227 posts)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.