The federal government releases more than 60,000 pages of record Senator Robert Kennedy's Assassination Wednesday night - the second time document Will be issued in the 1968 homicide case.
President Trump ordered in January by the Senator's son, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sirhan Sirhan Probably innocent.
The documents "have been sitting in various federal storage facilities for decades and have never been digitized or accessed by the public." They are digitized by ODNI, headed by the head of the national intelligence company Tulsi Gabbard, and published on the National Archives website.
"Today's release is an important step towards the greatest transparency, finding the truth and sharing the truth," Gabbard said in a post about the Society of Truth.
Mr. Trump also ordered the release of documents on President John Kennedy's 1963 assassination and Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 killings. Some John Kennedy Documents It was released in March, but the king's documents have not yet been released.
Odney said the documents released Wednesday included “details of the FBI’s investigation into the RFK assassination, no investigation into the RFK assassination has been seen, including discussions of potential clients in various FBI offices, internal FBI memos, detailed the progress of the case and more.”
According to Odni, the records also include recordings of 1968 assassination by police officers in Los Angeles and witnesses.
But it is unclear whether the documents will reveal new information about Robert F. Kennedy's killings.
The 1968 assassination of the Senator was mainly investigated and prosecuted by the Los Angeles authorities. Documents from local investigations, as well as many records of separate investigations from the FBI, have been made publicly in California's national archives since the late 1980s. Some records released Wednesday have been handed over to the Los Angeles Police Department, Odney said.
The government released 10,000 records on Robert F. Kennedy last month. one CBS News Review The documents found include Sirhan's handwritten notes - including "RFK must be disposed of like his brother" written by Sirhan, as well as FBI memos on Sirhan, crime scene and autopsy photos, witness interviews and other materials.
Some of these records refer to common conspiracy theories about assassination, including references to witnesses seeing a woman in a polka dance or someone who shouts “We shoot him.” Other witnesses said they did not see anyone matching the description.
Many details in these documents are already publicly known.
The Western Han Dynasty was convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy, the chief candidate for the then Democratic presidential candidate, and the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was arrested shortly after the shooting, when he was 24 years old. Sirhan admitted killing the senator in every way, sometimes claiming that it was due to the senator’s support for Israel, although other times Sirhan said he was innocent or that he did not remember the incident.
Sirhan was imprisoned in California for decades, with multiple pledges unsuccessful. State parole board Recognizes his bid for parole in 2021but California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom Rejected the request.
The case has attracted decades of public obsession, with some observers Require Sirhan did not fire the deadly shooting, nor did he as part of a broader plot. They often cite conflicting witness testimony or so-called extra bullets, although many others support Sirhan's view of acting alone.
One of the skeptics is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was 14 years old when he was assassinated. He argued that Sirhan was not responsible for the killing and met him in prison before supporting his 2021 parole request.
However, other members of the Kennedy family have Firmly oppose Sirhan is released from prison.