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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)who had NO problem taking on BIG entities like the mob, who had NO problem getting on the right side of history by supporting equality for blacks when the country was against them, who had no problem facing down both Khrushchev AND the brass of the US military in the Cuban Missile Crisis, would turn into a couple of wimps when it came to - in JFKs case - not getting us out of Vietnam if he had really wanted, and - in RFK's case - lying in the faces of hundreds students by saying that he supported the findings of the Warren Commission when he actually felt the opposite, especially in a speech where RFK told a bunch of CA college students that their protesting and sign carrying meant nothing if they couldn't bother to get out and vote for him.
These were NOT men who felt bashful about exercising their own personal and political power.
And RFK told some campaign aide that he was going to reopen the WC if he became president, less than two months after he stated publicly he would not do so? I doubt very much that RFK's convictions blew with the wind in such a manner. I doubt very much that he stood there and knowingly LIED to all those college kids who were looking to him as a teller of the truth. But that's exactly what you're claiming RFK did - lied to a bunch of kids when it came to who he believed killed his own brother.
This guy claims, that guy's "take." Sorry, I'll take RFK's own words. There has to be something much more concrete than speculations and opinions of third parties for me to ignore RFK's own words, and to believe somebody who says the extreme opposite of what RFK himself averred.
I guess you're more sanguine than I when it comes to believing these aura glommers.