On President Donald Trump’s orders, approximately 10,000 pages of records relating to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released on Friday as part of Trump’s ongoing disclosure of historical investigation documents. These included handwritten notes by Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, who wrote that Kennedy “must be disposed of” and acknowledged an obsession with killing him. The documents were published on the National Archives website and will continue to be added to on a rolling basis. While many of the documents uploaded were already available to the public, others, yet to be digitized, had been sitting in federal government storage facilities for decades. The move comes a month after the JFK Collection, which contains more than 6 million pages of records, was released, and is the result of Trump’s Executive Order pertaining to the declassification of records regarding the murders of JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr.
