Files include handwritten notes by the shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, convicted of first -degree murder and who is serving a life imprisonment sentence
About ten thousand pages about the 1968 homicide by Robert F. Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother of former President John F. Kennedy, also murdered, were disqualified, the US administration announced Friday.
According to a statement from the National Information Service, about ten thousand pages pages were published today on the United States National Archives, but many others, about 50,000 discoveries in Cia and the FBI warehouses, are still awaiting digitization.
Shortly after his inauguration, last January 20, for a second term in the White House, Donald Trump signed an executive order in which the disqualification of files related to the murder of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963, as well as those of the Brother “Bobby” and the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy, also former senator and father of Donald Trump’s current and controversial health secretary, was murdered at the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, shortly after beating the primary democrats in California.
Files include hand -written notes by the shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, convicted of first -degree murder and who is serving a life imprisonment.
Unlike former President Kennedy’s archive, the archives about brother and Martin Luther King “have not been digitized and have been gaining powder in federal government facilities for decades,” he says in the statement.
The disclosure of the archives about the death of Robert F. Kennedy brings “a long-awaited light on the truth,” noted the national director of information services, Tulsi Gabbard, quoted in the statement, and takes place a month after the publication of unlinked files related to the murder of the former president.
These documents gave the stakeholders more details about the US secret operations in other nations during the Cold War, but did not reinforce the credibility of the conspiracy theories about the murder of John F. Kennedy, shot down while circulating in a unconvertable car in Dallas.
The current US president defended, on behalf of transparency, the dissemination of documents related to high-level murders and investigations, but also deeply suspicious of government information agencies, now allowing public scrutiny of conclusions and operations of institutions such as CIA and FBI.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the New York Senator who now performs the duties of Secretary of Health, praised Trump and Gabbard for “courage and persistent efforts” by publicizing the files about his father.
“Raising the veil about the documents is a necessary step to restore confidence in the US government,” said Sirhan Sirhan’s politician, who believes Sirhan did not kill his father and should be released, breaking with his family’s position.
