10,000 Documents on Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Released

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Approximately 10,000 documents related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, April 18.

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration posted the files to its website after an order from President Donald Trump.

Many of the files had previously been released, but others had not been digitized and sat for decades in federal storage facilities.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also said the files release “shine a long-overdue light on the truth.”

“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 said in a statement.

Last month, unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were also released.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now oversees U.S. Health and Human Services, thanked Trump and Gabbard for their “courage” and “dogged efforts” to release the files of his father’s assassination.

Though public speculation about the assassination of Robert Kennedy doesn’t have the same fervor as that of JFK, there has long been concern of a cover-up in both deaths.

“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” the health secretary said in a statement.