The Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun to publish thousands of pages of documents classified in The murder of Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy – A movement that is almost certain that it will feed renewed speculation about a crucial moment in Los Angeles and the history of the United States.
The release of President Trump of the Archives is backed by the secretary of Senator, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a lot of time I thought a second gunman can have a leg, and insisted on his father’s convict, Sirhan SirhanI could not have fired the fatal shots.
“Raising the veil in RFK’s documents is a necessary step to restore confidence in the US government,” Kennedy said in a statement. “I praise President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency. I am also grateful to Tulsi Gabbard for his stubborn efforts to eradicate and declassify these documents.”
Robert F. Kennedy was killed shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles after celebrating his victory in the presidential primaries of California.
Shortly after the murder, which was captured by television cameras and broadcast worldwide, Sirhan, a 24 -year -old Palestinian immigrant, was arrested.
Sirhan was captured on the scene with a .22 caliber gun in his hand. He had also written a manifesto who asked Kennedy’s death.
“Kennedy must be killed on June 5, 1968,” he wrote.
The date marked the first anniversary of the six -day war between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israel won decisively, capturing a strip of territory that includes the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the old city of Jerusalem.
But Sirhan’s weapon had only eight bullets and new tests have emerged over the years that suggests that up to 13 shots may have shot that night.
Robert Kennedy Jr., who was 14 when his father was killed, with Sirhan within a Correctional Center in California in 2017 and advocated his liberation to the Board of probation. In recent years, Kennedy has expressed the theory that Eugene César, a security guard, killed her father.
The National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement on Friday that around 10,000 pages of previously classified records about the murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. “Sining Dust in the facilities of the entire federal government for decades.” Now they have scanned and charged by the national archives, he said, and will be free of Avia to see online, with limited editories for privacy reasons, to Archives.gov/rfk.
“Almost 60 years after the tragic murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people, for the first time, will have the opportunity to review the federal government investigation thanks to leadership or said President Trump in a statement. “My team is honored that the president gave us to lead the declassification efforts and that a very long light shines on the truth.”
Tim Tate, author and documentary filmmaker who was co-author of the 2018 book “The murder of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up: A New Investigation”, began to carry for the recently published documents on Friday. After review 60 of the 229 files launched, he said, he had not found any material that significantly added to the historical record.
“Until now, there is nothing of which it is equivalent only to a couple of beans, much less a bean hill,” said Tate, who believes Sirhan did not shoot Kennedy. The vast majority of the archives he had examined so far were duplicate from the FBI and the archives of the Department of Justice in the files of the State of California, he said, or letters to the Department of Justice or the White House of the common and Jewish common citizens.
“But that could change,” Tate said, noting that he still had thousands of pages to review. “This is a great dump of traffic jams.”
The Treasury of Documents includes several photos of Sirhan’s handwritten notes on Kennedy.
“My determination to eliminate RFK is becoming an unwavering obsession,”
“RFK must be murdered,” he scribbled again and again. “Kennedy must fall. Kennedy must fall.”
Dan Molda, who was the author of the 1995 book “The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy,” he said he did not anticipate that anything in the files would fundamentally change the AGAST SIRhan case.
“I can say, without seeing a single document,” Molda said, “none of that has any impact on the fact that Sirhan did it and did it alone.”
Tate, who has spent more than a quarter of a century, scrutinizing RFK’s murder documents, said he was amazed that the treasure freshly published for a moment.
“All files were destined to be transferred to the files in the state of California between 1988 and 1990,” he said. “And that included the FBI archives, so federal archives, as well as the archives of the Lada and Sheriff’s office.”
No matter what the files contained, Tate said, they should be revealed to the various lawyers who represent Sun during the last half century, including his current lawyer, Angela Berry, who has represented Suns in the crops of the Board of Probation.
Sirhan was denied probation In 2023. Two years before, I had bone Recommended for prison release for a panel panel of two people. But that decision He was reversed by Governor Gavin NewsomWho argued in a Opinion times That Sirhan remained a threat to the public.
“As a matter of procedure, she has, in my opinion, a very good claim for embezzlement, because these files were with her hero,” Tate about Berry said.
Archive retention, Tate said, could be equivalent to Brady’s violation, referring to the rule that requires prosecutors deactivating material exculpatory information in the government’s possession to defense.
“If that evidence turns out to be exculpatory or not,” he argued, “it is not something for the government or, in this case, the Lapd and Lada office to decide.”
Berry, who repeats Sirhan Pro Bono, said Friday that she and her team had not yet had time to review the files, but it was not clear if the documents could make the case of a rape of Brady.
“Unless there is some kind of government statement that they had delivered to the defense before it is classified, it will be difficult for us to develop a Brady argument,” Berry said. “We do not know if these documents that are now released were given to the defense lawyer and then they were sealed, or they were never given to the defense lawyer, and there is no way we could that, because there is no.”
Even if the police were not the prosecution archives, said Berry, that could be a rape of Brady.
“But that will be a difficult argument to do, unless we can demonstrate that the defense was never given,” he said. “Now, if these documents reveal that they were classified immediately and never spread, that helps us to make Brady’s rape. But we simply do not know the moment of when he qualified and when he turned.”
Trump promised the 2024 electoral campaign that he would fully launch the records previously classified on the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverendo Martin Luther King Jr. days after assuming the position, Trump signed an executive order that desaches the records, and last month, his administration published a cache of qualified documents An UN related to the 1963 rise by Juan F. Kennedy.
The 10000 pages of files released on Friday in Robert F. Kennedy are just the first batch of files related to their murder.
The Office of the National Intelligence Director said in a press release on Friday that the agents discovered an additional treasure of 50,000 pages of the CIA and the FBI stores for documents that had not changed to the national archives. According to the office, agencies are working to make these documents available to the public and the continuous search for government facilities to obtain more records.
Tate said he was surprised to hear the recently discovered CIA files.
“The CIA does not have business in this,” he said, noting that the murder was a state crime managed by the LAPD and the County Sheriff, Althegh, the FBI did the investigation itself and was closely informed with the application of the law of the law.
“There is absolutely no reason why the CIA has been involved,” said Tate, noting that the agency deals with the collection of foreign intelligence. “If there are files from the CIA, or only they maintain eyelashes in what was said, or there is something more substantive.”
“What should happen is what has never happened, and that is an official honest, transparent and official investigation about Robert Kennedy’s murder,” Tate said.
