Overview

• The June 12 release comprises 1,450 pages, including 54 newly declassified documents on Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination.
• Among the materials are Sirhan Sirhan’s handwritten notes declaring “Kennedy must fall” and his psychological assessment conducted days after the shooting.
• Newly disclosed memos reveal Kennedy’s voluntary cooperation with the CIA following his 1955 trip to the Soviet Union.
• This is the third tranche of RFK files released this year under the January executive order extending to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. records.
• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hailed the disclosure as a necessary step toward restoring public trust through government transparency.