The Region : Data on Assassination May Be Unsealed

The Police Commission is considering the release of about 50,000 pages of sealed investigative files on the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, officials said. Should the five-member commission approve the release at its Tuesday meeting, screening of the documents by police and the city attorney’s office would delay disclosure of the material for up to six months. Previous requests to view the file have been refused, but numerous inquiries from historians, journalists and researchers of a conspiracy theory in Kennedy’s murder have prompted the commission to put the issue on its agenda, commission Executive Officer Bill Moran said. Kennedy was shot to death in the kitchen area of the Ambassador after his victory in the California presidential primary in June, 1968. Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the slaying and was sentenced to life in prison, where he remains.