'I'm convinced a second gunman was involved in killing my uncle': Robert Kennedy

[JDPriestly]

48. I don't know what happened, but the Warren Report is not very believable.

I don't trust it at all.

I think about the other congressional whitewashes that we know are not accurate and not based on all the facts -- like the 9/11 report like the reports on the crash and mortgage crisis of 2008 and it seems all the more likely that the Warren Report was not based on an honest, independent or thorough investigation. Jut not likely at all that it was.

I believe that an honest investigation and a truthful report would have stepped on a lot of very powerful toes, and that is why no such report could be published. I suspect that those who signed the report thought sincerely that it was true and as with the 9/11 report did not question whether it was complete or whether the investigation was conducted by individuals who were free to follow all leads and who moved to follow the leads quickly enough to interview all important witnesses while their memories were fresh and before they died.

It's a terrible shame that so many of us doubt that report. I speak for myself when I say that my doubts in that report are part of the reason that I doubt so many things our government claims and says regardless who is the president.

We have an obligation to ourselves and to history to open up all the records, hear all the statements and answer all the questions no matter how crazy they may sound about Kennedy's assassination.

That assassination was a turning point in our history. It destroyed our trust and made us, as a nation, cynical. We have entered into pointless war after pointless war since then, wars that impoverish us, kill our children and make us enemies. And in my view the reason is that we in our investigation of the assassination of Kennedy, we failed to insist that we know all the facts and assign blame and guilt where it belonged.

It's as if we had a huge tragedy in our personal lives and did not try to learn from it.

After the Kennedy assassination, our country became bitter and turned to extremist right-wing ideologies. What a shame.