This is not to say there is no evidence linking Sirhan to the crime. He was seen by many people at the Ambassador Hotel firing his .22 pistol at Kennedy as the Senator walked through the kitchen on a shortcut between meetings.
Posted on 01/10/2009 6:33:08 PM PST by Steelfish
I know who was behind Bobby Kennedy's murder, by his actor friend Robert Vaughn By ROBERT VAUGHN When Bobby Kennedy's death was announced that day in June 1968, I cried myself to sleep. It was months before I was able to function normally again. I had deeply admired Bobby since I was first introduced to him in 1960. Ironically, we met at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles where, eight years later, he would be assassinated. We ran into each other again at the University of Southern California in 1965, when I was concluding work on my PhD in communications and my show, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., was at the height of its popularity. I was asked if I would host Bobby and his wife Ethel when they visited the campus for a speech. After that, I stayed many times at Hickory Hill, the family's estate in Virginia, with Bobby, Ethel and their children, all big U.N.C.L.E. fans. For years, I had been actively involved in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, speaking out against American involvement in the Vietnam War and trying to persuade Bobby to stand against Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson. Indeed, a short time before Bobby announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination in 1968, he even suggested I try for a Senate seat. I was flattered. 'When you're sitting in the Oval Office having stopped the war, we'll talk again,' I said. He smiled and replied: 'We'll see.' I never saw him privately again. Like the murder of his brother John almost five years earlier, Bobby's shooting was a watershed for America.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
P.S. I'm no fan of the Kennedys (any of them).
The Kennedy brothers got us into Vietnam. Bobby only turned against the war in order to have something to hold against LBJ, his political rival.
Interesting read, but for me to believe it I need a more reliable source than the second hand account of a two bit actor.
RFK was even more left than the new fuhrer.
I shudder to think where would be now had he been POTUS.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? Ilya, what say you?
Open channel D...for Dumba**
Ilya says to check with Mr. Waverly.
I’m mildly surprised he didn’t blame Bush.
This is not to say there is no evidence linking Sirhan to the crime. He was seen by many people at the Ambassador Hotel firing his .22 pistol at Kennedy as the Senator walked through the kitchen on a shortcut between meetings.
Is Robert Vaughn gay?
He “cried himself to sleep?”
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve certainly cried over loss of friends. I can still tear up over Ronald Reagan. But to lie in bed and bawl oneself to sleep over a Hollywood-Washington kind of friend, to me indicates a serious need to grow up and be a man.
MM
Leave Ducky out of this.
I’m sick of reading about flawed human beings like Joe Kennedy Sr., JFK, RFK, Lyndon Johnson, the man from UNCLE(PHD? what’s he done with his life?) who the world idolizes...I meet the most fantastic people just doin’ their everyday jobs.
And it was MONTHS before he could function NORMALLY again.....geesh....
Oh....geeeezz...ruin a perfectly good school girl crush.
I'm sooooo bummed.
RV...why did you have to print this????
Frickin' libs...they take a beautiful thing and cheapin it.
I have no words here...
And so now Robert Vaughn is publishing a book and a woman told him somthing Onassis told her some 35 years ago. Hmmmm.
Why did not this woman come forward in 1973 or later she could have written a book and made millions.
***The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? Ilya, what say you?***
Ilya is too busy cutting up bodies in the morgue. He changed his name to “Duckey”.
David McCallum is on NCIS. He can ask his colleagues to investigate.
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