New Delhi, April 19 -- About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy revealed that a man who threatened to kill the rest of the Kennedy family after the assassination almost snuck onto the plane housing the assassinated politician's body.

An initial report said the suspect was just 100 yards from the airplane, although it later emerged he was arrested at a bar near the airport, New York Post reported while citing the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) newly released files.

The suspect was later identified as William Frederick Crosson.

"He had been making death threats against the FBI, the Secret Service and the Kennedy family at the airport and at the bar in which he was arrest...