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RFK papers: Should they be released? [video, 5 minutes 15 seconds]

Max Kennedy, the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has requested that dozens of crates of his father's papers not be made public by the JFK presidential library....

Some speculate that those documents are from the Kennedy administration and might still contain sensitive information. Historians believe the papers are packed with diplomacy, history and, perhaps, even illegality.

The documents are over 50 years old and only a select few historians have been given minimal access.

Archivist Darwin Stapleton, who is the retired executive director of the Rockefeller Archive Center, and currently a professor of History at UMass Boston, has more on this story.
Read entire article at Fox 25 News (Boston)