The Region : R.F. Kennedy Assassination File to Open

After nearly two decades of delays, Los Angeles city officials agreed to make public the police files on the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. City Clerk Elias Martinez said more than 50,000 documents will be transferred to the secretary of state’s office in Sacramento, where they will eventually become accessible to the public. Caren Daniels-Meade, spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office, said archivists in the Capitol will process, edit and index the confidential files over the next two years, releasing them to the public piecemeal. Scholars, authors and others who have sought access to the full police report on the death of the 1968 presidential candidate said it is “incomprehensible” that it has taken the city 19 years to make the documents available to the public.