More than 10,000 pages of records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, have been released giving sleuths new details to pour over in the senator’s death.
Among the trove of documents released were the FBI’s witness and evidence reports from the night of the assassination, letters of remorse from ambassadors and world leaders to the Department of State and official correspondence about the shooter’s trial.
Kennedy, the brother of former president John F. Kennedy, was killed while serving as the Democratic Senator of New York and campaigning for president.
The assassination occurred just after midnight on June 5, 1968. Kennedy was departing from a ballroom inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after winning the California primary and seizing momentum in the race when he was shot multiple times in the kitchen by 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan.
The released records are part of President Donald Trump’s executive order declassifying and releasing documents related to events and investigations of public interest such as the assassinations of RFK, JFK, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more.
While many of the documents related to Kennedy’s assassination have been released, others had not been digitized.
“Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to @POTUS leadership and commitment to maximum transparency,” Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, wrote on X.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the son of the late Kennedy.
Like the aftermath of JFK’s assassination, Kennedy’s assassination sparked various conspiracy theories, such as allegations that there was a second gunman or that the CIA was involved.
Even Kennedy’s own son, RFK Jr., has propagated conspiracy theories about the event, namely that Sirhan could be innocent.
Sirhan, a Palestinian-Jordanian man, fired shots at Kennedy with a .22-caliber revolver the night of the shooting. In addition to killing Kennedy, five other people were injured.
Sirhan has admitted to killing Kennedy and said he was motivated by Kennedy’s support of Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. However, Sirhan has also made conflicting statements over the years about the shooting. Ultimately, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, although that was commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Sirhan, now 81, has unsuccessfully sought parole at least 17 times over the last 56 years, the most recent being in August of 2024.
Source: independent.co.uk
