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msanthrope

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4. The widow thinks it was AIM..

Reply to frogmarch (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:34 PM

Feb 2014

"Reliable sources let it be known positively that Ray had been shot and killed at Wounded Knee by an Indian man and buried there. We have been told that a participant in Wounded Knee has heard a definite confession from the man who did it," Cheryl Robinson wrote in a February 1975 request for a meeting with AIM.

http://www.indiancountrynews.com/index.php/investigations/ray-robinson/888-widow-says-civil-rights-activist-killed-during-1973-wounded-knee-takeover

If he had an FBI bullet in him, I'm betting AIM would have used that.

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FBI accuses AIM of killing Civil Rights activist in 1973 Wounded Knee occupation [View all] frogmarch Feb 2014 OP

More likely the FBI is the culprit. bravenak Feb 2014 #1

The FBI made up the witnesses? frogmarch Feb 2014 #2

The widow thinks it was AIM.. msanthrope Feb 2014 #4

One of my daughters-in-law is Lakota, frogmarch Feb 2014 #9

Like I said...Ray Robinson with an FBI bullet in him would have been useful. msanthrope Feb 2014 #11

I trust no law enforcement. bravenak Feb 2014 #5

Given the Ana Mae Aquash case, and how that went down, I wouldn't make any msanthrope Feb 2014 #3

I'd like to know too. bravenak Feb 2014 #6

Yeah...but as I noted above, the widow and the family (the kids, now grown) msanthrope Feb 2014 #7

^^^THIS^^^ 100% nt 2naSalit Feb 2014 #8

Funny..the widow disagrees. nt msanthrope Feb 2014 #10

Those closest to a crime are the least objective tkmorris Feb 2014 #12

Wow...that is some condescending shit to offer a family who has been trying msanthrope Feb 2014 #13

Yeah 2naSalit Feb 2014 #15

Bullshit. rug Feb 2014 #14

"AIM says..." frogmarch Feb 2014 #16

"FBI says . . . ." rug Feb 2014 #18

Having had both positive and negative frogmarch Feb 2014 #19

Having been at Wounded Knee, I will. rug Feb 2014 #20

Both sides were armed. If you were prevented frogmarch Feb 2014 #21

The relationship of AIM members to tribe members is entirely different from that of AIM to the FBI. rug Feb 2014 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author Zorra Feb 2014 #17

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