On Thursday, the CIA released 54 previously classified documents totaling 1,450 pages about RFK's death. The documents, some redacted, show how the CIA responded to his killing and detailed RFK's trip to the Soviet Union, among other vignettes about his life and the broader social and political context of the time.

The CIA has released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified files about the life and death of Robert F. Kennedy. A senator from New York and former U.S. Attorney General, Kennedy was fatally shot in Los Angeles while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.