For years, the family of the late Robert F. Kennedy has jealously guarded his papers, insisting they represent only his personal communications. Now, the Globe’s Bryan Bender has reported that the trove of documents the family is keeping from public view actually contain papers relating to official business during his time as attorney general under his brother, John F. Kennedy, including possible covert activities.
It is time for them to become public.
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The family doesn't even OWN the papers. They are work product. Your employer owns your work product, not you. Work produced on company time belongs to the company. Imagine if every engineer or attorney who left a company packed up his/her entire file cabinets and took them put on a dolly. Doesn't happen. The arrogance of those Kennedys, deciding whether they'll release to us the materials we already own.
They are arrogant because they are worshipped by the Massachusetts voters. If the last name is Kennedy they get your vote no questions asked.
@roxanna: 1) The family does, in fact, own the papers. The law has changed, but it was not changed retroactively. 2) This situation is very typical. Read: www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Archives&Mss-Law.pdf
The Kennedys are a corrupt bunch. The Kennedys also opposed the release of the FBI record on alleged threats against Senator Edward M. Kennedy (in my opinion, a very corrupt individual and an unindicted criminal), and I think that I understand their motive: it is my strong conclusion that Senator Kennedy and his staff used to make false accusation against some of the people who discovered or were in the process of discovering some of his wrong-doing, or who honestly called his office to follow up on it. I used to admire John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, but what I know about Edward Kennedy makes me wonder if they were not also but two spoiled and corrupt brats! These documents, the work product of his work as agent of the United States then, should be released. I view the claim by kate2468 above with very great skepticism. It is a 112-page publication, and it appears to me that if the argument by kate2468 was sound and honest, she would have given us the relevant page(s). I THEREFORE DOUBT THE HONESTY OF THE COMMENT.
The Kennedys also opposed the release of the FBI record on alleged threats against Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and I think that I understand their motive: it is my strong conclusion that Senator Kennedy and his staff used to make false accusation against some of the people who discovered or were in the process of discovering some of his wrong-doing, or who honestly called his office to follow up on it. I used to admire John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, but what I know about Edward Kennedy makes me wonder if they were not also but two spoiled and corrupt brats! These documents, the work product of his work as agent of the United States then, should be released. I view the claim by kate2468 above with very great skepticism. It is a 112-page publication, and it appears to me that if the argument by kate2468 was sound and honest, she would have given us the relevant page(s). I THEREFORE DOUBT THE HONESTY OF THE COMMENT.