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This FBI KENSALT file concerns the June 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and the investigation and prosecution of Sirhan Sirhan. The OCR shows a May 4, 1977 Los Angeles FBI memorandum forwarding Thomas F. Kranz's special counsel report, which the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors had commissioned in 1975 to review the case independently. The report material includes a foreword, a chronology of the shooting, witness and police accounts, Sirhan's arrest, the trial evidence, appellate history, and public controversy over whether the case should be reopened. The released pages focus heavily on ballistics issues, including Dewayne Wolfer's testimony, test-fired bullets, serial number and custody questions, later expert examinations, and an Associated Press photograph captioned as showing a bullet in wood.

FBI file number: 56-156 | Documents span: 1968-1977 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan, Thomas F. Kranz, Dewayne Wolfer, Paul Schrade, John E. Howard, Dinko Bozanich, Robert Wenke, Thomas Noguchi, Richard Strobel, Jess Unruh, Rafer Johnson
Subjects: assassination, KENSALT, ballistics evidence, Sirhan trial, Los Angeles, special counsel report