USA – Latest on the assassination of RFK Files released – Following an executive order 14176 signed by Donald Trump in January, an additional 60,000 files on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy have been declassified.
A total of 10,000 records on Robert F. Kennedy were released last month.
Making a comment on social media, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said that the release was “an important step toward maximum transparency, finding the truth, and sharing the truth.”
She added that the documents had been “sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to the public before.”
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy, was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. RFK was a leading candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder and assault with intent to murder and has been imprisoned since 1969.
