Release of 10,000 pages of documents on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination

According to CBS, the order to release these documents was issued by the Trump administration shortly after taking office, with the support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of John F. Kennedy and currently the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The release of these previously classified documents on Friday could reignite speculations about the assassination of the American senator decades after his death.

Kennedy Jr. insists that Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, may be innocent in this case.

CBS reported that its review of the documents shows they include handwritten scans of Sirhan’s notes, interviews with eyewitnesses, images from the crime scene and autopsy, FBI notes regarding Sirhan and his hideout before the shooting, public calls to the government in response to the assassination, and interviews with the family of the perpetrator.

Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, stated that this release followed efforts to collaborate with the National Archives and other authorities to scan and upload over 10,000 pages, which will be made available online to the American public.

Gabbard claimed this action was taken to fulfill “Trump’s promise of maximum transparency.”

She added, “Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigations into this assassination.”

The Trump administration’s Secretary of Health, who was 14 at the time of his father’s assassination, has long been interested in the release of these documents.

Sirhan’s requests for parole have been repeatedly denied, repeatedly drawing public attention to the case. Some critics, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claim that Sirhan did not fire the fatal shots and that other groups were responsible for the assassination.

Several experts told CBS that it remains unclear what new information these documents will reveal. The assassination case was initially prosecuted by federal authorities in Los Angeles, and many documents from parallel investigations by the FBI over decades were stored in California’s state archives. It is uncertain whether other federal agencies hold additional documents related to this case.

The U.S. government has also promised to release documents concerning the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement for African Americans.