Thousands of pages of documents relating to killing of Robert F Kennedy released
Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of senator Robert F Kennedy were released on Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump.
Mr Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California’s Democratic presidential primary.
His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison.
The US National Archives and Records Administration posted roughly 229 files containing the pages to its public website.
Many files related to the senator’s assassination had been previously released, but others had not been digitised and sat for decades in storage facilities maintained by the federal government.
“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 the leadership of President Trump,” Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement.
Ms Gabbard also said the files release “shine a long-overdue light on the truth”.
The release of the RFK files 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 US operations in other nations but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.
Transparency
Trump, a Republican, has championed in the name of transparency the release of documents related to high-profile assassinations and investigations.
But he has also been deeply suspicious for years of the government’s intelligence agencies, and his administration’s release of once-hidden files opens the door for additional public scrutiny and questioning about the conclusions and operations of institutions such as the CIA and the FBI.
Mr Trump signed an executive order in January calling for the release of governmental documents related to the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, who were killed within two months of each other.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, a son of the Democratic New York senator who now serves as the US health and human services secretary, commended Mr Trump and Ms Gabbard for their “courage” and “dogged efforts” to release the files.
“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” the health secretary said in a statement.
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Oh come on now, they have been diddling these for ages. Gabbard is a born again trumpian idiot and a bit cosy with putin and trump is just an ignorant ape.
And you cannot trust these to have not been meddled with in any way and RFK, he is spouting eugenics, concentrate on that loon.
So, you know the drill. He does this, what is he defecting from.
Surely you mean “Deflecting”. You should appreciate by now that “truth” as told by US Government agencies is whatever suits their aims at any point in time. This current lot are no different to whatever has gone on before, even JFK himself was nowhere as honest as the image he projected.
There is a gulf between previous and this lot. Project 2025 is heading to the uk as well.