Posted on 08/22/2023 2:30:02 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
Just over fifty-five years ago, on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after triumphing in the California and South Dakota Presidential primaries.
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“Sirhan confessed to the murder,” denoted Kennedy. “He pled guilty. His story is that he has no memory of it, and he stuck with that story for 60 years. But there was a man standing, one of my father’s best friends, standing beside him when my father was shot. And his name is Paul Schrade.”
“And the first shot that Sirhan fired hit Paul in the head,” Kennedy detailed. “Paul survived, and he just died less than a year ago. And he spent the last 20 years of his life trying to get Sirhan out of jail because he did not believe that Sirhan killed my father.”
Kennedy shared that Allard Lowenstein, a former US Congressman (D-NY) and “great friend” of Robert F. Kennedy, also believed the same thing — that Sirhan Sirhan did not kill the Presidential hopeful in 1968. “He fought for many years to get Sirhan out [of prison] and get the case reopened because he did not believe that my father was killed by Sirhan.”
Kennedy previously believed that the 77 eyewitnesses at the Ambassador Hotel shooting must have seen things right — that Sirhan Sirhan killed his father.
“Paul Schrade made me come over to his house one day and read the autopsy report,” recalled Kennedy. “How did he make me? He told me, you have to do this. And because he was such a close friend of my father’s and because he himself had been shot, I felt like I couldn’t say no to him. When I sat down and read the autopsy report, it became clear to me, as it would to anybody who read that report, that Sirhan could not have killed my father, which is what Thomas Noguchi, the coroner, the most important coroner probably in American history also concluded and said in his autobiography.”
Eight men were in the Secret Service Cadillac directly following Kennedy’s limo. There’s video footage of the car. Had a rifle been fired by someone on that car they would all have reacted involuntarily to a rifle blast within feet of them. None do.
Moreover two of the men in the car worked for JFK and had been his close personal friends for decades. Kenny O’Donnell and Dave Powers. They weren’t Secret Service agents and they would have reported any “drunken and hungover” Secret Service agents supposed to be protecting Kennedy. Of the many ridiculous conspiracy theories about the assassination this is about the most idiotic.
Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger that killed JFK.
The whole controversy about JFK was because people couldn’t accept the fact that a Commie did it.
Worse, in the context of the Cold War, Kennedy seemed to act as if he were compromised because his decisions in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, and as to the Vietnam War were duplicitous and suggestive of covert disloyalty, even treason. And the Kennedys (JFK and RFK) were regarded as directly culpable in the death of Marilyn Monroe.
As it was, the CIA had the support and active assistance of elements of the Mafia, Cuban exiles on the CIA payroll, and J. Edgar Hoover. LBJ also backed the plot and cover-up and may have arranged a slush fund to finance it from several Texas oil men.
Thanks for posting. This thread has been a real eye-opener. I guess next time I’ll have to post the entire article (if allowed).
I believe the government had a decisive role in all of this
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