The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archive Collection
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Archives and Special Collections University Library
MC 1/RFKAA
Guide and collection inventory
September 1996 Revised April 6, 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archive Collection MC1/RFKAA
Background note
New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated just after midnight, on June 5, 1968, in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, immediately after delivering a Presidential primary victory speech in the hotel ballroom on the night of June 4. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant, was immediately apprehended at the scene. The case was investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department Detective Squad, and the FBI Los Angeles Field Office. Sirhan Sirhan went to trial in January 1969 and was convicted on April 17, 1969.
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archive (RFKAA) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, dedicated April 20, 1988, was assembled by author and professor of Political Science Philip Melanson and the RFKAA Committee of the University Library* Original materials, including research files, audiotape interviews, videotapes and newsclippings were donated in several installments beginning in 1984, by a number of private individuals investigating discrepancies in the case. These individuals were among the first to question the Los Angeles Police Department, the FBI and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s handling of the case. They include journalist Robert Blair Kaiser, members of the Assassination Truth Committee Lillian Castellano and Floyd Nelson, investigators Gregory Stone, and Philip Melanson. To this core collection were added thousands of pages of FBI documents, released by the Freedom of Information Act to the University, between 1984 and 1986. This group comprises a copy of the complete FBI Los Angeles Field and Sub files produced during the investigation, including witness interviews and interdepartmental communications. After repeated requests citing the California Public Records Act and pressure from the public, the Los Angeles Police Department finally released its files for public inspection in 1987. The original records were first deposited in the Los Angeles City Archives, where the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth obtained copies of many audiotapes, the “Summary Report” and copies of numerous investigative files produced by the Los Angeles Police Department. The California State Archives was chosen as the permanent home for the records of the investigation in 1987, and a microfilm copy of the collection was obtained for the RFKAA soon thereafter. The collection also includes a complete copy of all transcripts for Sirhan Sirhan’s court trial, hearings and appeals to the Los Angeles County Superior and Supreme Courts, the Kranz Report and selected minutes of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Correspondence relating to the establishment of the RFK Assassination Archives can be found in J-K3 of the University records (not RFKAA). This file was supplemented in February 1996 by correspondence copied from the files of Janet Freedman, Dean of the Library, 1978- 1995. The 1992 request to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury to re-open the case (books 153-155) is an excellent source for a summary of the assassination, its investigation and subsequent problems and questions left unanswered.
Scope and content of the collection
The RFKAA includes correspondence, copies of government and legal documents, audiotapes, videotapes, notebooks, photographs, magazine and newsclippings, reports and books published about Robert F. Kennedy and his assassination. The collection is divided into 6 series, I through VI, with 10 item- and file- level indexes. The series are arranged in order of the sequence of the case, and most files within the series are arranged alphabetically, except for the court documents and the newsclippings files, which are arranged chronologically. The entire collection totals 155 boxes/books and 45 published books. See the book and box list following the series descriptions for an inventory or the contents of the collection. The inventory should be supplemented with the appropriate RFKAA Index.
*The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was then known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, and the University Library was then known as the Library Communications Center. Processing note
The collection was reorganized by University Archivist Judy Farrar, with the assistance of Doria Alfiero and Jennifer Walsh, August-September, 1996. Finding Aid by Judy Farrar, September 1996. The original “cataloguing scheme”, A-P was not retained, however, these designations are still apparent on many file labels. Series descriptions
Series I. Records of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (task force “Special Unit Senator”), 1968-1969
22 rolls of microfilm, 83 audiotapes, copies of transcripts of taped interviews, summaries of taped interviews of key witnesses, polygraph test results conducted on key witnesses, photographs, and copy of the 14- volume “Summary Report” (1969) and “Supplemental Report”.
The California State Archives (CAS) was chosen in 1987 to be the official repository for the records of the LAPD investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The investigation, known as Special Unit Senator, was conducted between 6/5/68 and 6/9/69. To assure the security of the collection and to provide access to the public, CAS microfilmed the entire collection except Series 8 (FBI Indexes and report) Series 17 (Films) Series 20 (Record and background checks - restricted), Series 30 (Tape recorded interviews), Series 31 (Stenotype notes), Series 32 (Magnetic tapes) and Series 33 (Physical evidence). See the “Guide to the Los Angeles Police Department Records of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Investigation”, California State Archives, 1993 for details on the content of each series.
Series II Records of the FBI Investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, code name KENSALT, FBI file # 56-156 and 62-587, 1968- 1969
Copies of documents obtained from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act include the contents of all field files associated with the investigation, an alphabetically-arranged collection of 1,651 witness interviews, and reprints of photographs contained with Subfile X-1. The code name for the investigation, which appears on many documents, was KENSALT. The names of Special Agents and other information deemed to be private, was redacted (blacked-out) by the FBI before the documents were released to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth between 1984 and 1986.
Contents include: Field Files (Volumes 1-49), 19 manuscript boxes These field files, arranged by volume number, are further divided into lettered Sub files (A-Z) with accompanying exhibits at the end of each volume. Subfiles X-1 though X-8 (Volumes 1-21), 32 slipcased 3-ring binders There is a table of contents and name index for each Subfile located at the beginning of each. A complete index and table of contents for X-1 through X-8 is also available in Index # 2. Witness Interviews (1,651), 39 manuscript boxes. Duplicates of witness interviews filed within the Field and Sub files. Here arranged (by the FBI) alphabetically by name of interviewee. Interviewees were assigned identification numbers in sequence with the alphabetical arrangement. Newsclippings collected by the FBI, 1968-1969; Photographs (reprints obtained from the FBI and LAPD; the originals were filed with the FBI Subfiles.
Series III: Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, court records, 1968-1971 18 manuscript boxes Contents include: Los Angeles County Grand Jury, Proceedings, 1968 Los Angeles County Grand Jury, Proceedings (Pre-trial testimony), 1968-1969 Pre-trial hearings took place June 7, 1968-January 6, 1969. Los Angeles County Superior Court, Clerk’s Transcript of the Court Trial, 1969 Criminal case no. 14026, The People of Los Angeles County v Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, convened January 6, 1969 and concluded with a conviction on April 17, 1969. Los Angeles County Supreme Court, Record of Appeals and post-trial motions, 1969-1971 Respondent’s Brief, Sept. 8, 1969 Post-trial correspondence regarding filing for extensions to appeal Appellant’s Opening Brief, 700 pages Grand Jury Proceedings (Appeal), 1971 690 pages (Volumes I-III) of transcript Los Angeles County Clerk of Court, Transcripts (overview), 1969 588 pages (Volumes I-III) of transcript Los Angeles County Supreme Court Appellant’s Brief, Sept. 22, 1971 Petition for rehearing Appeal for reduction of sentence, June 16, 1972 Office of the District Attorney, Los Angeles County, News Releases, 1969 Weekly summaries of the court trial as released to the press by the Office of the District Attorney. There were 52 weekly summaries issued, the last one on June 4, 1969. Summaries 1-32 are missing.
Series IV: Official reports on the case, after the initial investigation, 1977 2 binders and one manuscript box. Consists of: The Report of Thomas F. Kranz on the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, March 1977 and minutes of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1977.
Series V: Private investigations into the case, 1968-1996
Includes research subject files, photographs, videotapes, notebooks and audiotapes donated by private citizens and journalists who investigated the case. Donors include members of The Kennedy Assassination Truth Committee (the Floyd B. Nelson and Lillian Castellano collection), Robert Blair Kaiser, author of R.F.K. must die!, Philip Melanson, Dan Moldea, and Greg Stone. Their research files were combined to form the “Personal Name Subject files” and “Subject files” (Boxes 125-136); other materials from their files and articles written by them are found in the “General files” (boxes 105-107) arranged alphabetically by private investigator’s name. Their collected magazine and newsclippings were also combined to form one chronological grouping (Boxes 133-146). All of the audiotapes are in boxes 127-132. These files are considered an open series and may be added to periodically.
The Kennedy Assassination Truth Committee Members of the committee included Mike Farrell, chairman, John R. Clemente, Lillian Castellano, Fred T. Newcomb and Floyd B. Nelson. The bulk of the collection consists of the investigative work of Lillian Castellano, who gathered photographic evidence of three additional bullet holes that the police did not account for in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel. Castellano testified before the Los Angeles Grand Jury in 1971 in an attempt to have the case reopened.
Robert Blair Kaiser Writer, columnist, editor, magazine and newspaper correspondent, and journalism professor. Author of the book R.F.K. Must Die! A history of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination and its aftermath (1970), correspondent for the New York Times and Time Magazine and Professor of Journalism at the University of Nevada at Reno.
Kaiser’s donation includes seven spiral bound notebooks, compiled between June 1968 and June 1969, of interviews and notes taken during the research conducted for his book R.F.K. Must Die! ..Collection also includes photocopies of articles written by Kaiser about the assassination, for various newspapers and magazines, as well as copies of outgoing correspondence and copies of handwritten and typescript notes not included in the notebooks, an undated draft of Kaiser’s article in Life Magazine, published 1972, and materials on the 1993 seminar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, to which Kaiser was invited to speak.
Related material: Signed copy of R.F.K. Must Die! in Special Collections includes a photograph of Kaiser attached to the title page.
Philip Melanson Political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University), 1971 to the present, author and expert on political assassinations, member of the governing board of the Coalition on Political Assassinations. Collection consists of correspondence, copies of magazine and newspaper articles by and about Melanson, transcriptions of talks and depositions, as well as audiotapes. Melanson’s books on the assassination, The Robert F. Kennedy assassination: new revelations on the conspiracy and cover-up (E840.8.K4 M46 1991) New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991 and Who Killed Robert Kennedy? Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1993 (E840.8.K4 M45 1993) are catalogued for Special Collections.
Dan Moldea Investigative journalist and author. Collection includes copies of interviews and a copy of Moldea’s article on the assassination in the June 1987 issue of Regardie’s.
Gregory Stone and Allard K. Lowenstein, Allard K. Lowenstein was a congressman from New York State who died in 1980. He was one of the first individuals to question the handling of the assassination investigation and wrote articles on the subject for Saturday Review. Gregory Stone was Mr. Lowenstein’s assistant and continued the congressman’s efforts by attempting, with Philip Melanson, to have the case reopened. The collection includes correspondence, memos to Allard Lowenstein, copies of court documents, and an analysis of the “Kranz Report”. 9 folders.
Series VI. Published materials and books about Robert F. Kennedy, his Assassination, and related topics. 51 books and one set of microfilm.
RFKAA book and box list
Series I. Records of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (task force “Special Unit Senator”), 1968-1969
Books 1-8 Special Unit Senator, Detective Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department An investigation summary of the Senator Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: The Final Report. February 1969 1282 pp. Also referred to as the “Summary Report” Contents: Volume I Chapter I Introduction. Chapter II Summary of the investigation Volume II Chapter III The assassination Volume III Chapter IV The assassin Volume IV Chapter V Investigation of possible conspiracy Volume V Chapter VI Case preparation for the trial Chapter VII Legal processes Chapter VIII Related events occurring since the assassination Volume VI Appendix I. Senator Robert F. Kennedy - Reports Appendix II Los Angeles County Coroner’s autopsy report Appendix III Sirhan B. Sirhan - Reports Appendix IV Other victims - crime reports Appendix V Other victims - medical treatment records Appendix VI Miscellaneous crime reports Appendix VII Los Angeles Police Department activity documents Appendix VIII Evidence reports Appendix IX Analyzed evidence and survey reports Volume VII & VIII Appendix X Interview summaries Appendix XI Management charts Volume IX Index (personal name index compiled by LAPD moved to RFKAA INDEX # 1)
See RFKAA INDEX #1 for complete listing of contents of chapters and appendices.
Book 9 Supplemental Report to the “Summary Report”, date? pp. 1397-1455 Contents: Chapter I The Trial Chapter II Investigation of possible conspiracies: The Namer Investigation The Theosophical Society Investigation Michael McCowan - David Kassab Investigation Chapter III Interview summaries Index (personal name index complied by LAPD - moved to RFKAA INDEX # 2) Box
10-11 Duplicate copy of An investigation summary of the Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassination: the final report and the Supplemental report, pp. 1-1456
12 Microfilm copy of the records of the LAPD investigation into the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination (task force “Special Unit Senator”) in the California State Archives,
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12 Sacramento, CA (CSA) 22 microfilm reels (copies acquired through purchase from the CSA) (for a copy of the complete guide to the CSA collection, see RFKAA INDEX # 1) See the RFKAA Card catalog for a name index to the microfilm. Note: not all records in the CSA collection have been microfilmed.
Contents:
Reel # 1-3 Card Index 4 Office files 5 Arrest reports Broadcasts and teletypes Crime reports Rosters Evidence files Polygraph reports and charts 6 Logs Investigative filed notes 6-7 Letters 7 Medical reports Vehicle reports Legal files Tape summaries 8-11 Interviews 12-14 Final reports 15 News media files 16-17 Photographs 18 Transcripts 19 Case preparation files 19-20 Conspiracy investigation files 20 Sirhan family files 21 Reporters’ daily transcripts 22 Re-investigative files
13-15 Tape recorded interviews conducted by the LAPD (not all interviews were recorded), 1968-1969 Many of these tapes were made from reel-to-reel copies duplicated by for Umass Dartmouth directly from the originals, before the collection’s permanent deposit in the CSA in 1987. Others are duplicate copies supplied by CSA after 1987. We do not have copies of every tape in the CSA collection.
13 CSA tape #s 1-40 14 CSA tape #s 46-92 15 CSA tape #s 102-143 16 CSA tape #s 149-188, F3906:89-95, plus unumbered copies of 1971LAPD interview of Karl Uecker; “West Tape, LAPD Log, Weisberg Tape.”
See RFKAA INDEX #2 for complete contents of each audiocassette, including a personal name index..
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16a-21 Transcripts of taped interviews conducted by the LAPD in the course of the investigation, arranged alphabetically, 1968-1969. Photocopied from the original records before the collection was deposited permanently in the CSA in 1987 Duplicated in CSA microfilm reel # 18, series #22
16a Transcript # 1-21 (Aubry - Grant) 17 Transcript # 22-35 (Grier - Murray) 18 Transcript # 36-47 (Owen - Sheets) 19 Transcript # 48-53 (Sirhan, A. - Sirhan, M.) 20 Transcript # 54-62 (Sirhan, M. - Sirhan, S.) 21 Transcript # 63-78 (Sirhan, S. - Yoshio)
22-24 Summaries of taped interviews, compiled by the LAPD during the course of the investigation, arranged alphabetically, 1968-1969 Photocopied from the originals for UMass Dartmouth before the records were deposited permanently in the CSA in 1987. Duplicated in both CSA series 23 (microfilm reel # 7) and CSA series 11 (microfilm reel # 8-11).
22 Summary #s 1-68 (Almond - Griffin) 23 Summary #s 69-128 (Grijalva - Peters) 24 Summary #s 129-176 (Pilger - Yoshio)
25 Polygraph examinations (13 out of 15) conducted by the LAPD during the course of the investigation, arranged alphabetically, 1968-1969. Photocopied from the originals before the records were deposited permanently in the CSA in 1987. Alphabetical list of individuals examined in RFKAA INDEX #2. The 2 missing ones, Jose Duarte and Michael Wayne, can be found on CSA microfilm reel # 5.
Book
26-27 “Girl in the polka dot dress” from the records of the LAPD investigation “Conspiracy investigation files”, 1968-1969. Duplicated in CSA series 27, microfilm reel #s 19-20, where similar records of other conspiracy theories the LAPD investigated can be found. Photocopied for UMass Dartmouth from the original records before they were deposited permanently in the CSA in 1987.
Series II Records of the FBI Investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, code name KENSALT, FBI file # 56-156 and 62-587, 1968- 1969
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28-49 Interviews conducted during the course of the investigation by the FBI Field Office in Los Angeles, 1651 interviews, arranged alphabetically; 1968-1969 A complete list of individual names and their corresponding numbers assigned by the LAPD can be found in RFKAA INDEX #3. Some interviews are filed with duplicates of their corresponding LAPD interview.
50-54 Duplicate copies of selected FBI interviews.
55-68 FBI Los Angeles Field office files, records of the FBI investigation, 1968-1969.
55-57 FBI Field office Volume 1 57 FBI Field office Volume 2 58 FBI Field office Volumes 3-5 59 FBI Field Office Volumes 6-7 60 FBI Field Office Volumes 7-9 61 FBI Field Office Volumes 10-11 62 FBI Field Office Volumes 11-12 63 FBI Field Office Volumes 13-14 64 FBI Field Office Volumes 14-15 65 FBI Field Office Volumes 16-18 66 FBI Field Office Volumes 18-21, 23-25 67 FBI Field Office Volumes 37-38, 40-43 68 FBI Field Office Volumes 46-49
69 Duplicates of FBI Los Angeles Field Files, selections from Volume I, Subfiles C,I, J, K, L, M, N, O, S, V, CO.
70 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 1-6 71 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 7-9 72 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 10-12 73 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 13-16 74 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 17-18 75 FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 19-21
76 Duplicates of FBI Field Office Subfiles, selections from Volumes 1-9, 11
77 FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C., records of the investigation into the assassination, file # 62-587. Copies from Serial # 1214 and 400. Subjects include Sandra Serrano, civil rights and Sirhan Sirhan, but the majority of these records are FBI photocopies of Sirhan Sirhan’s diary, found in his room on 6/5/68. Book 78-79 Newsclippings about the assassination and investigation, collected by the FBI during the course of the investigation, arranged chronologically, 1968-1969
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Box/Book See RFKAA INDEX # 5 for a complete list of citations.
78 Newsclippings dated June 5, 1968- June 17, 1968 79 Newsclippings dated June 19, 1968 - October 13, 1968 80 Newsclippings dated October 22, 1968 - April 17, 1969
81-82 Photographs taken by the LAPD and the FBI during the course of their investigations, along with some photographs taken by private citizens investigating the case; also includes a photographic copy of selected pages from Sirhan Sirhan’s diary. Arranged by subject, 1968+ Many of the FBI and LAPD photographs appear as exhibits in the LAPD “Summary Report” and the FBI Field and Subfiles. See RFKAA INDEX # 5 for an item list.
Note: the LAPD claims to have destroyed thousands of photographs it produced during the course of the investigation, citing them as irrelevant to the case. See CSA microfilm reel #16 and 17 for the remaining 2,786 photographs taken by the LAPD.
Series III. Los Angeles County District Attorney, court records, 1968-1972
83 Los Angeles County Grand Jury, copies of proceedings, 1968
84-85 Los Angeles County Grand Jury, copies of proceedings (Pre-trial testimony), 1968-1969 Pre-trial hearings for Sirhan Sirhan took place June 7, 1969 - January 6, 1969
86-95 Los Angeles County Superior Court, Clerk of Court, copy of the transcript of the Court Trial, by the Court Reporter for the District Attorney, Criminal case no. 14026, The People of Los Angeles v Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, convened January 6, 1969 and concluded with a conviction on April 17, 1969, 9,062 pp.
96 Los Angeles County Superior Court Copy of the Clerk’s transcript of the Court Trial (overview only), 1969
97 Los Angeles County Superior Court Copy of the transcript of the Post trial hearing, 1969 Copy of the Respondent’s Brief submitted to the Court, 1969, 291 pp.
98 Los Angeles County Supreme Court, Sirhan Sirhan’s Appeal Copy of the Appellant’s Opening Brief submitted to the Court, 1969, 700 pp.
99 Los Angles County Grand Jury, copy of the transcript of the proceedings, 1971, 690 pp.
100 Los Angeles County Supreme Court Copy of the Appellant’s reply to the request for a hearing and the reply to the Grand Jury, 1971 Appeal for reduction in sentence, 1972
101 Office of the District Attorney, Los Angeles County, copies of news releases, 1969 # 33-52 of the Weekly summaries of the court trial as released to the press
Series IV. Official re-investigations of the case
Book 102-103 The Report of Thomas F. Kranz on the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, March 1977.
Box 104 House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations Copy of the minutes of the Critics Conference, Sept. 17, 1977
Series V. Work of Private investigators on the case
Box General files organized by name of private investigator: 105 Castellano, Lillian
106 Kaiser, Robert B.
107 McCowen, Michael Melanson, Phillip Nelson, Floyd B. Newcomb, Fred Stone, Gregory
108 Personal name subject files compiled by private investigators, A-Z Alfeld, Robert Allen, Ron Bailey, William Berg, Stanton Blehr, Barbara Bradford, Lowell Bugliosi, Vincent Busch, Joseph Cesar, Thane 109 Christian, John Compton, Lynn Cooper, Grant Crowe, Walter Curiel, Crispin Diamond, Bernard Duarte, Jose Enyart, Scott 110 Fahey, John Fauna, Fernando Griffin, Booker Grindoz, Robert Guinn, Vincent Isaac, Godfrey Harper, William Hanson, Roger Hendricks
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Box 110 Houghton (Police Chief) Howard, John Joling, Robert Kaiser, Robert Kessler, Ron 111 Khan, Khaibar Khawar, Khalid Khoury, John Kimbrough, Jack 112-113 Kirschke, Jack (trial) & Wolfer, DeWayne 111 Kranz, Thomas Lesar, James Lowenstein, Allard MacDonell, Herbert Nielsen, Michael Noguchi, Thomas 114 Owens, Jerry Owens, Jerry, The Walking Bible v. Ohrbach’s , Inc., KCOP Parsons, Russell Pollack, Seymour Poore, Dale Reddin, Thomas Rothblatt, Henry Schorr, Martin 115 Schrade, Paul Schraga, Paul Schulman, Don Sears, Donald Serrano, Sandra Simpson, Eduard Uecker, Karl Urso, Linda Van de Kamp, John Walker, Herbert Ward, Baxter Wayne, Michael Wirin, Al 116 Wolfer, DeWayne (see al Kirschke trial, boxes 112-113) Younger, Evelle
117-119 Sirhan Sirhan (background) 120 & 120a Sirhan Sirhan’s last interview, 1969, diary and photographs 121 Sirhan family
121 Subject files compiled by private investigators A-Z Ambassador hotel/employees “ /Kennedy Staff members “ /Location of elements important to case “ /Security guards RFKAA Series V continued
Box 122 Autopsy/Discrepancies “ /Report “ /Condensed Ballistics/doorjambs “ /analysis of murder weapon and bullets “ /initial joint report of examiners “ /analysis of impulsive sounds “ /report of Robert A. Houghton 122a “ /John Howland testimony “ /Richard Strobel “ /J. Cameron Hall “ /reinvestigation of trajectory “ /statements about bullet holes 123 Biltmore Hotel investigation Board of Supervisors’ hearings California Secretary of State Report, 1988 California State Archives tape index CBS Report inquiry, 1975 CBS News Special Reports, 1968 Conspiracy investigations (7 total) Evidence/list of missing items, 1986, 1990 “Evidence Report,” by Rose Lynn Mangan with Adel Sirhan, 1996 Excerpts from Contracts on America The Fez FOIA request to the FBI/correspondence 124 Girl in the Polka-dot dress Golden Garter Inn Grand Jury, request to reopen the case, 1992 History of the RFK Assassination Inside Edition Tape log, interview with Sirhan Sirhan Kassab investigation KNXT program on the condition of the physical evidence, 1971 124-125 LAPD files/correspondence concerning release of 125 Los Feliz Peace Freedom Movement Mind Control (3 folders) 126 People who were at the Ambassador Hotel Photos withheld by LAPD, 1988 Police Commission Statement on re-investigation, 1975 Police press conference, 1968 Questions about individuals which remain unanswered Rally for RFK, 1968 Re-enactment of the shooting, 1968 Release of exhibits Re-opening of the investigation Rosicrucian literature Rosicrucian members 126 San Gabriel Valley Gun Club Sirhan’s inventory SMU correspondence Stern’s article Trial procedures for onlookers, 1968
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Box 126 Troublesome misleading statements by officials Two-gun theory W-File (legal action) Witnesses in the pantry
127-135 Audiocassette interviews conducted by private investigators See RFKAA Index #8 for a list of individuals
136-142 Newsclippings collected by and written by private investigators See RFKAA Index # 9 for citations Book/box 143-146 Magazine and newsclippings collected by and written by private investigators See RFKAA Index # 10 for citations Book 147 Citizen’s Research and Investigative Committee and Louis Tackwood, copy of The Glass House Tapes,
148 Jack Kimbrough, The Killing of Robert Kennedy: an assassination scrapbook
Box 149-150 Videotapes
Books 151-152 Copy of the transcript of Greg Stone et al v the FBI
153-155 Request to the Los Angeles Grand Jury to reopen the investigation, 1992 Series VI Books and other published materials about Robert F. Kennedy, the Assassination and related issues
Alder, Allan. Using the Freedom of Information Act: A Step By Step Guide. Washington, DC: American Civic Liberties Union, 1987. KF5753 Z9 A34 1987 (2nd copy circulates)
Bain, Donald. The Control of Candy Jones. Chicago, IL: Playboy Press Book, 1976. BF1128.B34 1976
Bennett, Arnold. Jackie, Bobby, and Manchester. New York: Bee-Line Books Inc., 1967. E842.1 B46 1967
Beran, Michael Knox. The Last Patrician. Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998 E840.8.K4 B46 1998 (2nd copy circulates)
Cassidy, Sheila, editor. Remembering Jack and Bobby: a Kennedy Anthology. Sedona, AZ: In Print Publishing, 1992. E842.A25.A37 1992
Christian, John , and William Turner. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The Conspiracy and Coverup. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1993. E840.8 K4 T88 1993 (circulating copy on order)
David, Lester, and Irene David. Bobby Kennedy, The Making of a Folk Hero. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1986. E840.8 K4 D38 1986
Dooley, Brian. Robert Kennedy: The Final Years. Staffordshire: Ryburn Publishing, 1995. E840.8 K4 D654 1995
Dooley, Brian. Robert Kennedy: The Final Years. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. E840.8 K4 D66 1996
Eppridge, Bill (photographer), and Hays Gorey. Robert Kennedy: The Last Campaign, New York: Harcourt Brace Co., 1993. E851.G6 1993 (2nd copy circulates)
Freed, Donald. The Killing Of RFK. New York: Dell Publishing, 1975. PS3556.R383K5 1975
Guthman, Edwin O., and C. Richard Allen, editors. RFK: Collected Speeches. New York: Viking Penquin, 1993. E840.8.K4 1993 (2nd copy circulates)
Guthman, Edwin O., and Jeffrey Shulman, editors. Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. E841.K458 1988 (2nd copy circulates)
Halberstam, David. The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy. Random House, NY, 1968. E840.8 K4 H3
Hannibal, Edward, and Bons, R. Blood Feud. Ballantine Books, NY, 1979. PS 3558.A477B581979
Hilty, James W. Robert Kennedy, Brother Protector. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. E840.8.K4 H55 1997 (2nd copy circulates)
Houghton, Robert A., with Theodore Taylor. Special Unit Senator: The Investigation of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. New York: Random House, 1970. E840.8 K4 H63 1970 (circulating copy on order)
Jansen, Godfrey. Why Robert Kennedy Was Killed: The Story of Two Victims. New York: The Third Press, 1970. E840.8 K4 J36 1970
Kaiser, Robert Blair. “RFK Must Die!” A History of the Robert Kennedy Assassination and Its Aftermath. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. E840.8 K4 K3 (circulating copy on order)
Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1969. E183.8 R9 K42 K43 (2nd copy circulated; 2 circulating copies of 1971 edition)
Kennedy, Robert F. To Seek A Newer World. New York: Bantam Books, 1968. E840.K4 1968 (1967 edition circulates)
Koch, Thilo. Fighters For A New World. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969. E840.6.K613 1969
Kurland, Gerald. Events Of Our Times: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Charlotteville, NY: Samhar Press, 1973. E840.8.K4K87 1973
Lasky, Victor. Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man. New York: Trident Press, 1968. E840.8.K4 L35 1968
Marks, John. The Search For the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1980. JK468.I6M4 1980
Mehdi, M.T.. Kennedy and Sirhan. Why? New York: New World Press, 1968. E840.8.K4M4 1968 (2nd copy circulates)
Melanson, Philip H. Who Killed Robert Kennedy? Berkeley, CA: Odonian Press, 1993. E840.8.K4M46 1991 (2nd copy circulates)
Melanson, Philip H. The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991. New York: Shapolsky Publishers Inc., 1991. E840.8.K4M46 1991 (2nd copy circulates; 3rd copy on order to replace missing copy)
Melanson, Philip H. and William Klaber. Shadow Play. The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan, Sirhan and the Failure of American Justice. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. E840.8.K4 K58 1997 (2nd copy circulates)
Moldea, Dan E. The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995. E840.8.K4M58 1995 (circulating copy on order)
Morrow, Robert D. The Senator Must Die: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy. Santa Monica, CA: Roundtable Publishing, Inc., 1988. E840.8.K4M6 1988 (2nd copy circulates)
Newfield, Jack. Robert Kennedy: A Memoir. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. E840.8.K4N4 1969
Noguchi, Thomas T., with Joseph DiMona. Coroner. New York: Pocket Books, 1984. RA1053.N63A33 1984b
Rogers, Warren. When I Think of Bobby. A Personal Memoir of the Kennedy Years. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. E840.8.K4R586 1993. (General Collections only)
Ross, Douglas. Robert F. Kennedy: Apostle of Change. New York: Trident Press, 1968. E840.8.K4R59 (General Collections only)
Rothmiller, Mike, and Goldman, I. L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network. New York: Pocket Books, 1992. HV8148.L6R68 1992 (circulating copy missing)
Salinger, Pierre, Edwin Guthman, Frank Mankiewicz, and John Seigenthaler, editors. “An Honorable Profession.” A Tribute To Robert F. Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1968. E840.8.K4H6 1968
Schaap, Dick. R.F.K. New York: The New American Library, 1967. E840.8.K4 S3 1967
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Robert Kennedy and His Times. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1978. E840.8 K4. S33C3 (general collections only)
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