10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination released
RFK assassination files released
President Trump's administration released files involving the investigation of the assassination of Senator RFK. The National Achieves posted: "President Donald J. Trump promised maximum transparency and a commitment to rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies. Part of that promise was to fully release previously-classified records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), Senator Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)."
Approximately 10,000 pages of records about the 1968 assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Friday's release of the new documents continues the release of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump.
The release of the new Kennedy comes a month after unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were disclosed.
FILE-Robert Kennedy holds a news conference on April1, 1968 in New York, New York. (Photo by Santi Visalli/Getty Images)
Trump signed an executive order in January for the release of governmental documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
What’s revealed in the RFK files?
Dig deeper:
The newly released documents include pictures of handwritten notes by Sirhan Sirhan, the shooter who killed Robert F. Kennedy.
"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 Associated Press reported.
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Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison.
According to the AP, The National Archives and Records Administration posted 229 files containing the files to its public website. Many files related to Kennedy’s assassination were previously released, but other documents were not digitized and sat for decades in federal government storage facilities.
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
The backstory:
Robert F. Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Milton Academy and served in the Navy from 1944-1946 and later received a degree in government from Harvard University in 1948 and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School, according to rfkhumanrights.org.
In 1952, Kennedy made his political debut as manager of his older brother John’s successful campaign for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on March 16, 1968. But he 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.
The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Associated Press, The National Archives, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.org. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.