The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California, leaving attorneys for convicted gunman Sirhan Sirhan combing for new evidence in a case that has spawned many conspiracy theories.

The assassin concealed himself behind an ice machine in a crowded kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel with an eight-shot revolver. A small, wiry, pockmarked young man with curly hair and a hard-to-place accent, he loitered in the area for hours, asking kitchen workers if his target would be coming that way.

In the Embassy ballroom, Robert F. Kennedy, 42, New York senator and brother of a slain president, had just declared victory in the June 4, 1968, California Democratic primary. The ecstatic crowd chanted, “We want Bobby! W

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