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Who Killed Robert Kennedy?
American Spectator ^ | May 30, 2018 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Posted on 05/30/2018 2:47:46 PM PDT by Twotone

I have never believed in conspiracy theories. Though some critics have lumped me in with conspiracy theorists excogitating on Clinton aide Vince Foster’s death in Fort Marcy Park and other such phantasmagorias, I plead innocence. It is just too difficult to keep a conspiracy under wraps. Particularly in Washington and New York, where garrulity is the rule. A conspirator sitting on a big story is likely to tell someone for money or for prestige or for the sheer fun of it. If I recall correctly, even Woodward and Bernstein eventually told their secret about Deep Throat, and that was a rather simple secret. Imagine the pressure on survivors in the know to spill the beans on the plot to kill JFK or the real identity of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassin or, come to think of it, Donald Trump’s collusion with the Russians or Stormy Daniels or Martians. Breaking silence on these matters could assure the leaker fame unto eternity or at least a fat book contract.

No, I do not believe secrets about sensational events can be kept for very long. However, in light of the discovery of new evidence or new insights, I think a new investigation can be warranted. Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stepped forward with an abundance of evidence that Sirhan B. Sirhan, who was convicted in 1969 of assassinating Robert’s father, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Sr., is innocent. At least Kennedy thinks Sirhan is innocent of killing his dad. That terrible June night in 1968 Sirhan did fire his 22 caliber pistol repeatedly in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel, and he injured several people. However, the younger Kennedy believes someone else shot his dad. I think he makes a compelling case at least for reopening the investigation.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: assassination; assassinationplot; kennedyfamily; rfk; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr; sirhansirhan; tas; theory; tyrrell
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To: Flick Lives

“Behind every great crime, is the FBI.”

If it was the FBI in this case, MORE POWER TO THEM - that guy had NO BUSINESS being president.

It was a damn close call.


41 posted on 05/30/2018 3:55:55 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Twotone

Some of my favorite conspiracy theories involve TWA 800, JFK, and Sandy Hook.

Especially Sandy Hook. The wildest most bizarre nut-job off the wall conspiracy theories out there? No more stranger or weirder than the many different, conflicting and contradictory official government versions that we were told by the State and the MSM to believe.

And how many hundreds of people witnessed a surface to air missile on July 17, 1996?

Sorry, but our government tells us, their eyes are lying.


42 posted on 05/30/2018 3:57:45 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Twotone

Teddy - he couldn’t wait his turn.

Then he let the little man screw it up.


43 posted on 05/30/2018 3:58:21 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Flag_This

That was actually what I was thinking & a pretty obvious possibility. Someone returns fire at the shooter & instead shoots the intended victim.

With bullet holes coming from the back & more bullets than the perp’s gun could hold, it would be nice if they would JUST BE HONEST. That way conspiracy theories don’t take hold.


44 posted on 05/30/2018 3:59:10 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Without question the Palestinian radical and loon, Sirhan Sirhan.

The first killing shot came from Sirhan’s 22 cal (short) pistol directed less than a foot from RFK’s mastoid process (the little bump just below and behind the earlobe, both sides of the head, this one on his right side, from behind). There is no question about this round which was recovered from inside RFK’s cranium, and did not exit the cranium. A slow moving (relatively) round, the round of choice of professional hitmen and coached lunatics from the Palestinian movement as well.

US and Sicilian mafia improvements: take the round off the casing, remove some of the powder, to further slow the fps out the barrel and also reduce the sound of the pistol firing, requiring the killer to get in close, and so the round will rattle around the brain case destroying the brain. One shot one kill.

Sirhan did keep firing several times— there was only one round left in his pistol till it was removed from his hand.

The recent “questioning” of a 50 year old murder, has been brought up with wife cheater, beater and probable suicide causing.. RFK, Jr. (late CEO of the venezuelan oil company CITGO, with a 600k a year job managing the giveaway tax break given to CITGO by the State of MA for “free” fuel oil given to the “poor” of MA— from the non-profit front company RFK, Jr created and ran— for political expediency). RFK, Jr. is certifiably a loonatic, period.


45 posted on 05/30/2018 4:03:53 PM PDT by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Flick Lives
I watched a documentary that pointed to a cop accidentally shooting kennedy in the back of the head. I also remember them talking about the possibility that more bullets could still be in the walls and ceiling of the hotel. I think Sirhan killed Kennedy but I wouldn't rule out him getting help from deep state. It's probably the same for his brother.
46 posted on 05/30/2018 4:08:04 PM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: Flag_This; DiogenesLamp
Assuming you got an honest autopsy report. I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I don't believe anything our gov't says about anything...ever.

I don't believe in everything the government says either but I don't trust people pushing an agenda or a book even less.

The wider a conspiracy grows the more likely the conspirators talk. So I call BS on this one.
47 posted on 05/30/2018 4:17:06 PM PDT by RedMonqey (" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: Twotone

Sam Giancana. He also got JFK.

rwood


48 posted on 05/30/2018 4:26:17 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: PROCON

Bill Clinton looked into both murders after becoming President. He knows and is the basis for lots of blackmail.


49 posted on 05/30/2018 4:51:34 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: DiogenesLamp

Like debating whether Huey “Kingfish” Long was killed by Dr. Weiss’ .32 automatic or by his bodyguards’ frantic return fire which turned Weiss into a human collander and struck Long as well.

They’re still dead either way.


50 posted on 05/30/2018 4:54:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
The article says that there were 13 holes in Kennedy, though Sirhan's gun could only hold 8 bullets.

One 22, shot into a closed fist, could produce eight holes.

51 posted on 05/30/2018 5:10:44 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: John S Mosby
RFK, Jr., wrote a book in which he claimed that GWB stole the 2004 election from Kerry. I saw the book in a bookstore--I think the evidence amounted to there supposedly having been long lines in the polling places in a small town in Ohio. (If Kerry had won Ohio he would have won the election.)

Huey Long died after being shot by a doctor, who was shot dead by Long's bodyguards. I read that it's possible that the bullets which actually killed Long may have come from the bodyguards' guns--ricocheting off the walls in a confined space. Of course Sirhan wasn't shot dead on the spot.

52 posted on 05/30/2018 5:11:31 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Does so

You might want to re-examine that post.


53 posted on 05/30/2018 5:12:43 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Redwood71

The mafia conspiracy on RFK would be the same as for JFK. He was relentless going after them and the teamsters. He had been out of power since they killed JFK. Now he looked like the lead for president. Something they couldn’t survive. Also, they were in bed with the teamster retirement fund.


54 posted on 05/30/2018 5:16:48 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: eyedigress
OK. Ten holes. ;)
55 posted on 05/30/2018 5:17:05 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Does so

We are looking for 13.


56 posted on 05/30/2018 5:20:11 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Does so

and from the back......

many inbound as a driver would say.


57 posted on 05/30/2018 5:22:29 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress
Col. Mustard with a gub in the kitchen.

"He wrote 'gub.'"


58 posted on 05/30/2018 5:31:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: eyedigress

I’d have to see the sketch; however, an ME will be counting entrances and exits. Most reporters wouldn’t see the distinction—especially if they can sell more newspapers.


59 posted on 05/30/2018 5:32:12 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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JFK was killed by an America-hating commununist.

RFK was killed by an Israel-hating Palestinian immigrant.

Today’s liberals should take note and reexamine their world view. Maybe they’re *GASP* wrong?


60 posted on 05/30/2018 5:35:25 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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