Approximately 10,000 Pages of Documents on the 1968 Assassination of Senator Kennedy Released

(Patria) - Approximately 10,000 pages of documents related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released yesterday as part of an ongoing process of disclosing state secrets ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Senator Kennedy was fatally wounded on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after delivering a speech celebrating his victory in the California Democratic primary.

His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence.

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released 229 files containing the aforementioned pages on its official website.

Many documents related to the assassination had already been available to the public, but some remained undigitized and stored for decades in warehouses under federal government control, according to AP.

"Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people now have, for the first time, the opportunity to review the federal government's investigation, thanks to the leadership of President Trump," said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

She stated that the release of the documents "finally sheds light on a long-hidden truth."

The release of documents on Kennedy's assassination comes a month after unredacted files on the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy were made public.

Those documents provided interested parties with more details about secret U.S. operations in other countries during the Cold War, but did not confirm widespread conspiracy theories about who killed JFK, AP reports.

Trump has advocated for years for transparency through the release of documents related to high-profile assassinations and investigations.

At the same time, he has long expressed skepticism toward U.S. intelligence agencies, and the release of once-classified documents from his administration opens the door for additional public scrutiny and re-examination of the conclusions and activities of institutions such as the CIA and FBI.

In January, Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of government documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., who were killed just two months apart.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the Democratic senator from New York and current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, praised Trump and Gabbard for their "courage" and "persistent fight" to make the documents public.