From the RFK Files: Damning Ballistics Evidence Was Destroyed

A gallery of critical LAPD crime scene photos indicates more than one shooter in RFK's assassination.

TOP ROW, left to right: (1) LAPD photo of RFK’s empty podium at Ambassador Hotel; (2) Point where Kennedy fell in hotel kitchen (the foremost 'X') and white door frame from which bullets were recovered; (3) Officers Wright and Rozzi indicate bullet hole low in a door frame. MIDDLE ROW: (4) Close-up of frame in (3); (5) LAPD detective points at two bullet holes in center door frame; (6) Close-up of center door frame. BOTTOM ROW: (7) Two bullet holes in left panel of center door frame; (8) An officer examines mark on ceiling left by bullet that passed through ceiling tile after ballistics rod has been inserted into bullet hole; (9) Crowd in Ambassador ballroom just before shooting started.

The 10,000 pages of material related to the 1968 assassination Sen. Robert F. Kennedy are now posted and searchable on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website.

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Among the highlights of the material are crime scene photographs taken by the LAPD and FBI during their investigation which show multiple bullet…