According to the message, many records related to the murder of Kennedy were previously transferred to the National Archive from federal agencies, but they were not available to the public.
“In the notes published on April 18, 2025, researchers may encounter a combination of black and white and color scabs. This is why: black and white scanning used the priority process of interagency testing. However, some black and white pages were not read. When the national archive discovered unreasonable pages, they were replaced by pivoting colored scans,” inform on the archive website
The Washington Post writes that the published documents contain numerous interviews of the FBI agents with people who were in the Ball hall of the Ambassador Hotel and in the kitchen, as well as with the Kennedy hotel room, including the leader of the civil rights of John Lewis, about whose presence that day no one reported.
Files also contain a set of photographs of opening the body taken during the examination by the forensic expert Thomas Noguchi on Kennedy's death, the media notes.
US National Intelligence Director Tulsey Hubbard said that a total of 10,000 pages were published, which were previously classified. She added that when searching in the warehouses of the FBI and the CIA, another 50 thousand pages about the murder of Robert Kennedy, which were not transferred to the national archive, were discovered. Hubbard said that the administration would work to publish these files, and agencies will continue to search for new files in state institutions.
Bloomberg notes that the documents were published with minimal editing – mainly for considerations of confidentiality, for example, to protect social insurance numbers and tax identification numbers.
Context
Robert Kennedy was killed five years after the older brother, US President John Kennedy. In his administration, he held the post of general prosecutor. He became famous for the organization of high -profile trials against the American mafia.
In 1964, he resigned and was elected to the Senate from the state of New York. Four years later, he nominated his candidate for the presidency. He was shot at the Los Angeles Hotel Ambassador immediately after he announced his victory in the primaries in California. The killer was caught red -handed.
