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.