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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
18. Yes, we did.
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 12:46 PM
Jan 2013

I worked as his PSU student coordinator, and set up his phone bank at Portland
Hdqrs, then he hired me and my wife to go w/ campaign to work in LA. We flew
back to pdx the night of the assassination ...were also watching it on TV in Portland.

As for the goings on in Sirhan Sirhan's head, this 2005 article in the Guardian
pretty much sums up my suspicions. The CIA knew full well that Bobby was going
to finish what JFK started, in terms of dismantling and defanging the CIA.

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As Kennedy lies dying on the pantry floor, Sirhan is arrested as the lone assassin. He carries the motive in his shirt-pocket (a clipping about Kennedy's plans to sell bombers to Israel) and notebooks at his house seem to incriminate him. But the autopsy report suggests Sirhan could not have fired the shots that killed Kennedy. Witnesses place Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy, but the fatal bullet is fired from one inch behind. And more bullet-holes are found in the pantry than Sirhan's gun can hold, suggesting a second gunman is involved. Sirhan's notebooks show a bizarre series of "automatic writing" - "RFK must die RFK must be killed - Robert F Kennedy must be assassinated before 5 June 68" - and even under hypnosis, he has never been able to remember shooting Kennedy. He recalls "being led into a dark place by a girl who wanted coffee", then being choked by an angry mob. Defence psychiatrists conclude he was in a trance at the time of the shooting and leading psychiatrists suggest he may have be a hypnotically programmed assassin.

~snip~

As I researched the case, I uncovered new video and photographic evidence suggesting that three senior CIA operatives were behind the killing. I did not buy the official ending that Sirhan acted alone, and started dipping into the nether-world of "assassination research", crossing paths with David Sanchez Morales, a fearsome Yaqui Indian.

Morales was a legendary figure in CIA covert operations. According to close associate Tom Clines, if you saw Morales walking down the street in a Latin American capital, you knew a coup was about to happen. When the subject of the Kennedys came up in a late-night session with friends in 1973, Morales launched into a tirade that finished: "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard." From this line grew my odyssey into the spook world of the 60s and the secrets behind the death of Bobby Kennedy.

Working from a Cuban photograph of Morales from 1959, I viewed news coverage of the assassination to see if I could spot the man the Cubans called El Gordo - The Fat One. Fifteen minutes in, there he was, standing at the back of the ballroom, in the moments between the end of Kennedy's speech and the shooting. Thirty minutes later, there he was again, casually floating around the darkened ballroom while an associate with a pencil mustache took notes.

For Whole Story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/20/usa.features11

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I would never discuss this with them, of course(the whole subject would naturally be too painful) Ken Burch Jan 2013 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Jenoch Jan 2013 #27
I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign 99th_Monkey Jan 2013 #2
we may have passed each other in 68.. oldhippydude Jan 2013 #4
Yes, we did. 99th_Monkey Jan 2013 #18
I did too, in Southern California baby_bear Jan 2013 #23
I too remember that night. grasswire Jan 2013 #30
well, they didn't have actual footage of the shooting, just people freaking out in the ballroom Ken Burch Feb 2013 #44
I guess he had to move on from the anti-vaxxer nonsense sometime. nt msanthrope Jan 2013 #3
I feel the same way RFK did.... ReRe Jan 2013 #5
That's why there are many books written like, "Why bad things happen to good people" karynnj Jan 2013 #11
This is how I look at religion now: ReRe Jan 2013 #20
I agree with everything that you posted here karynnj Jan 2013 #22
Aren't there archival materials still to be released on this horrible event? ancianita Jan 2013 #6
2029 Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #8
There's no healing a country with a system like this. For the grandchildren of the assassinated ancianita Jan 2013 #9
Have we EVER been a free people? Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #10
What you said. ancianita Jan 2013 #16
One needs to define 'free' lunatica Jan 2013 #17
For the America we know of today to exist, people like RFK, MLK, and JFK had to be eliminated. Selatius Jan 2013 #7
unfortunate The Wizard Jan 2013 #13
The truther comment at the end ruined your post for me. n/t Gore1FL Jan 2013 #12
Logic NCthraxman Jan 2013 #19
I am all about logic and deductive reasoning. Gore1FL Jan 2013 #21
I guess I've watched too many demolition videos Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #25
Twin Towers in Freefall = gravity Coyotl Jan 2013 #14
That last line attempts to stop us from investigating JFK's assassination. Festivito Jan 2013 #15
Yeah. Right. I'm a CIA Operative spreading Disinformation. Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #31
No. Just spreading disinformation. Festivito Jan 2013 #32
The article also mentions.... AntiFascist Jan 2013 #24
Lisa Pease mentions that a member of the Kennedy family acknowledged... MinM Jan 2013 #26
Glad you included something from BOR, MinM... MrMickeysMom Jan 2013 #28
Yes... MinM Jan 2013 #33
I was wondering when we'd see the day of a Kennedy related interview... MrMickeysMom Jan 2013 #29
A historic day... Octafish Jan 2013 #34
RFK Jr. also thinks that mercury in vaccines causes autism...nt SidDithers Jan 2013 #35
Getting desperate, Dude. Octafish Jan 2013 #36
Irellevant eric saunders Feb 2013 #41
Well, Dithers.... MrMickeysMom Jan 2013 #37
... SidDithers Jan 2013 #38
Golly, Sid RobertEarl Feb 2013 #43
So you're a follower of Andrew Wakefield... SidDithers Feb 2013 #45
No RobertEarl Feb 2013 #46
Then I'm confused... SidDithers Feb 2013 #47
You know that mercury does not cause autism? RobertEarl Feb 2013 #48
The millions of people who've taken vaccines with mercury in them... SidDithers Feb 2013 #50
Like I say RobertEarl Feb 2013 #51
Oh, the science isn't settled? ... SidDithers Feb 2013 #52
OMG, Thank you Sid!!11!! RobertEarl Feb 2013 #53
You seem confused again... SidDithers Feb 2013 #54
Of course they are RobertEarl Feb 2013 #55
Still waiting for the studies that support your claim that the "science is not settled"... SidDithers Feb 2013 #56
You proved it already RobertEarl Feb 2013 #57
That right there is some authentic frontier gibberish... SidDithers Feb 2013 #58
That's what they say now RobertEarl Feb 2013 #59
So let me get this straight... SidDithers Feb 2013 #60
Almost RobertEarl Feb 2013 #61
Hey Dithers... AntiFascist Jan 2013 #39
... MrMickeysMom Jan 2013 #40
This story is over a month old... Archae Feb 2013 #42
I'm with JFK Jr. burrowowl Feb 2013 #49
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