A madman who threatened to kill the rest of the Kennedy family after the murder of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 almost slipped into the plane that housed the body of the murdered politician, the newly released files of the FBI, declassified on Friday.
An initial report said that the suspect, whom the Los Angeles police then identified as William Frederick Crosson, only 100 yards from the plane, although later it arose that he was arrested in a bar near the airport, according to the FBI report.
“He had been making death threats against the FBI, the Secret Service and the Kennedy family at the airport and at the bar in what was arrested,” said the FBI report of June 6, 1968, which said it was tasks by the Los Angeles Police Department.
At the same time, the police issued a bulletin for the trial of a “female caucasic” between the ages of 23 and 27 who was seen with the Kennedy murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, just before the shooting, which is the atmosphere in the mid -years later.
The documents, published by Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, after a Donald Trump campaign promise, show the panic of the FBI field office throughout the country while the agents processed innumerable advice and reports of suspicious people in the posterior later house later.
He died of his wounds in the early hours of June 6, two days after winning the Democratic primaries of California.
Birmingham’s FBI office reported that an Alabama man named Frank Guthrie declared that “they should” have Ted also “, referring to RFK’s brother, Ted Kennedy, American senator of Massachusetts.
In New York City, the FBI reported that a man named Michael Cornelius, “he said by telephone” how a man approached him in the corner of the 9th Avenue and 17 street to let him know the train tracks near the Washington Union station and exploded when the Kennedy funeral train was scheduled to arrive on June 8 for his Buria in the national cemeter in the national cemeter of Arlington of Arlington.
A search in Sirhan’s room in Pasadena, where he lived with his mother and three brothers revealed numerous handwritten notes, including a written on May 18, 1968.
“My determination to eliminate RFK is becoming a more unjustible obsession. RFK must be eliminated as its brother,” says a note included in the file.
Sirhan was born in Jerusalem and grew in Jordan. He arrived in the United States with his father, mother and four brothers and a sister on January 12, 1957, according to the documents. It had also become a militant supporter or Palestinian rights.
In addition, the authorities found notes that said: “Ambassador Goldberg must die. Goldberg will be unlimited (sic.)” Arthur Goldberg had been an ambassador of the United Nations for the United States since 1965. He renounced his position on June 24, only week after Kennedy.
Goldberg had played a key role in the writing of the UN Security Council, resolution 242, which aimed to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. He then worked as a lawyer in a law firm in New York and died in 1990.
Together with Sirhan’s notes on Goldberg, FBI agents found other scribbles, including “Sirhan is an Arab.”
The freshly declassified documents also include an FBI memorandum that indicates how Sirhan worked as a “exercise child” of racing horses and suffered a serious head injury when he was thrown from a horse he was traveling in in 1966.
“The interviews with their family indicate that their behavior has changed considerably since this injury,” says the memorandum of the Department of Justice of June 6, 1968.
One of the strangest information in the recently published archives includes the testimony of the members of a tourism group that had been visiting Israel in May, one month before the murder.
Some members of the group alerted the FBI, after the news broke from the murder, that they had heard Kennedy have received a shot in Milwaukee while they were in the Middle East.
Acting on all tips and information, FBI agents moved throughout the country to interview all group members in the hours after Kennedy was shot, the documents reveal.
