Approximately 10,000 pages of documents about the 1968 assassination of former senator Robert Francis Kennedy were made public by the donald trump administration on Friday. The release carries on the President's directive to reveal national secrets.
The release of the RFK papers will "shine a long-overdue light on the truth," according to Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of National Intelligence, according to an ap story.
"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," Gabbard was reported to have said in the story.
About 229 files with the pages were made available on the US National Archives and Records Administration's website.
"What we just released here today is 10,000 pages that have been sitting in boxes within the National Archives," Gabbard stated in an interview with FoxNews.
"This came about because President trump promised the American people that his administration would be one of maximum transparency," she stated.
While many of the senator's assassination-related documents had already been made public, others had not been digitized and had been kept in federally owned storage facilities for decades.
On june 5, 1968, just after delivering his victory speech after winning California's Democratic presidential primary, Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan, his assassin, is currently serving a life sentence after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
What the RFK files reveal
Files on 'Kensalt', the codename assigned to the assassination probe, included Sirhan's entire name, his address at the time, and all of his family's information, including his siblings.
"Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, AKA, Shiran Bishara Shiran, former exercise boy Santa Anita Race Track, California, identified as senator Kennedy's assailant," according to records.
Sirhan has been described as "white, make, five feet two inches tall, one and a half pounds, black hair, and brown eyes," with his birthdate withheld. According to the paperwork, the family arrived in the united states from jordan in 1957. Additionally, according to the paper, Sirhan might have gone by the alias "Ghattas".
The documents also mention another person named Frank Guthrie, who was heard to say, "They should have got Ted Kennedy also."
The papers show that Sirhan was a loner, an introvert, and never showed violent inclinations, according to one of the people interviewed to learn more about him.
According to the source, Sirhan also complained about the publications and administration because he thought they supported Israel.
The papers contain references to a girl who is only known by her first name, Sonja. "Sirhan was a member of the same foreign-type club (name unknown) as a gorgeous girl. According to the data, the female was described as 19, five feet four inches, 115 pounds, black hair, dark complexion, and maybe Arab.
JFK's assassination records released
The RFK files were made public barely one month after unredacted files pertaining to former President john F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination were made public. Although those records provided interested readers with further information on secret U.S. operations abroad during the Cold War, they originally did not support long-running conspiracy theories regarding JFK's assassination.
The release of the RFK papers will "shine a long-overdue light on the truth," according to Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of National Intelligence, according to an ap story.
"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," Gabbard was reported to have said in the story.
About 229 files with the pages were made available on the US National Archives and Records Administration's website.
"What we just released here today is 10,000 pages that have been sitting in boxes within the National Archives," Gabbard stated in an interview with FoxNews.
"This came about because President trump promised the American people that his administration would be one of maximum transparency," she stated.
While many of the senator's assassination-related documents had already been made public, others had not been digitized and had been kept in federally owned storage facilities for decades.
On june 5, 1968, just after delivering his victory speech after winning California's Democratic presidential primary, Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan, his assassin, is currently serving a life sentence after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
What the RFK files reveal
Files on 'Kensalt', the codename assigned to the assassination probe, included Sirhan's entire name, his address at the time, and all of his family's information, including his siblings.
"Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, AKA, Shiran Bishara Shiran, former exercise boy Santa Anita Race Track, California, identified as senator Kennedy's assailant," according to records.
Sirhan has been described as "white, make, five feet two inches tall, one and a half pounds, black hair, and brown eyes," with his birthdate withheld. According to the paperwork, the family arrived in the united states from jordan in 1957. Additionally, according to the paper, Sirhan might have gone by the alias "Ghattas".
The documents also mention another person named Frank Guthrie, who was heard to say, "They should have got Ted Kennedy also."
The papers show that Sirhan was a loner, an introvert, and never showed violent inclinations, according to one of the people interviewed to learn more about him.
According to the source, Sirhan also complained about the publications and administration because he thought they supported Israel.
The papers contain references to a girl who is only known by her first name, Sonja. "Sirhan was a member of the same foreign-type club (name unknown) as a gorgeous girl. According to the data, the female was described as 19, five feet four inches, 115 pounds, black hair, dark complexion, and maybe Arab.
JFK's assassination records released
The RFK files were made public barely one month after unredacted files pertaining to former President john F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination were made public. Although those records provided interested readers with further information on secret U.S. operations abroad during the Cold War, they originally did not support long-running conspiracy theories regarding JFK's assassination.
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