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In reply to the discussion: RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas [View all]AntiFascist
(13,756 posts)24. The article also mentions....
"He said his father had investigators do research into the assassination and found that phone records of Oswald and nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald two days after the president's assassination, "were like an inventory" of mafia leaders the government had been investigating."
Much of that research may be covered in the book "Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK". From the introduction to the book (by William Turner):
Although the <Kennedy> family consistently held the public position that the Warren Report was the final answer, privately Bobby Kennedy expressed a different opinion by words and actions. Charging <Senator> Daniel Moynihan with forming a task force to look into whether Hoffa was implicated and the Secret Service was bribed demonstrates that he was skeptical from the start ... In May 1968 RFK's California campaign aide, Richard Lubic, tracked me down by phone in Garrison's office to advise, "After he's elected, Bobby's going to go. He's going to reopen the investigation." On June 3, two days before he was shot, RFK said, "I now fully realize that only the powers of the presidency will reveal the secrets of my brother's death." Ever pragmatic, he understood that only by becoming president and controlling the Justice Department could he realistically undertake a new probe.
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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
well, they didn't have actual footage of the shooting, just people freaking out in the ballroom
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#44
That's why there are many books written like, "Why bad things happen to good people"
karynnj
Jan 2013
#11
There's no healing a country with a system like this. For the grandchildren of the assassinated
ancianita
Jan 2013
#9
For the America we know of today to exist, people like RFK, MLK, and JFK had to be eliminated.
Selatius
Jan 2013
#7
Still waiting for the studies that support your claim that the "science is not settled"...
SidDithers
Feb 2013
#56