BOSTON, July 12 (UPI) — Archivists are preparing to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy’s papers kept secret for 40 years, Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library said.
The decision to open the 63 boxes was reached March 1 after years of efforts to persuade Robert Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, to give control of his papers to the library, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Library Director Thomas J. Putnam said archivists should finish organizing and declassifying the papers in six months to a year.
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But according to another story in today’s New York Times, family members are having second thoughts about where the papers should be housed and are considering moving them elsewhere because they believe that the presidential library has not done enough to honor the younger brother’s legacy.
Many of the papers, dealing with Cuba, Vietnam and civil rights, are classified as secret or top secret. There are also 2,300 other boxes covering every stage of Robert Kennedy’s life, including his years as a United States senator and attorney general, most of which have already been opened for research.
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