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of course there was. Many people heard it, yet when people came forward as witnesses they were ignored. His brothers assassination the same. some of the people some of the time, not all the people all the time.
of the moral leaders of our past, I become so demoralized. The covering up of it- the CIA connections......
it is so hard to take......
Lots of accusations, but actual confirmed evidence?
"It's covered up by the government/Illuminati/Jews/CIA/whoever." 
People came rushing into the kitchen from both directions. Sirhan likely would have been able to get close to RFK regardless of which direction was taken to the press room.
As for the JFK "motorcade route change," it never happened. A word description of the route was published in both the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald (evening paper) on Nov 19. It was exactly the same as the final route. A picture of the route was published on the evening of the 21st in the DTH - also the same as the final route taken. There WAS a small map printed on the front page of the DMN the morning of Nov. 22 which was too small to show much detail which was apparently the source of Jim Garrison's mistaken tale of the "route change." This was then picked up and embellished by other JFK conspiracy peddlers.
Account of the "route change" http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/route.htm
DTH map of Nov 21 - Note Main Street at bottom of map, turn right onto Houston, and turn left unto Elm. The Texas Schoolbook Depository Building was at the corner of Houston and Elm. Kennedy was shot while proceeding up Elm toward the ramp unto Stemmon's Freeway to get to the destination of the Trade Mart. It was in fact impossible to turn from Main unto Stemmon's Freeway without jumping a concrete divider, something a motorcade obviously wasn't going to do. Oswald would certainly have known that.
Description in DMN on Nov. 19
DMN map morning of Nov 22. Note the turn from Main unto Stemmon's Freeway at the Triple Underpass, an impossible turn to make. Clearly the editors reduced detail because of the small size of the map.
We often rely on second-hand, anecdotal evidence to better validate our opinions and trivialize those whose opinions are different...
Yeah, radicals like Oswald and Sirhan, and certified nutcases like Hinckley just can NOT get close enough or accurate enough to shoot their targets. 
Of course, as usual, the media is all over this.
We have to remember this is 1968 NOT 1972, do to the reforms adopted after the 1968 Conventions AND more states opting for primaries as opposed to State conventions to select delegates to the national conventions, 1968 was the last time primaries were NOT the main way for someone to win the nomination. In 1968 the national conventions was still controlled by state parties, and LBJ had those non-primary states already in his pocket by the time of the California primary. In the convention RFK had enough votes to cause problems, but no way to stop the nomination of Humphrey, LBJ's choice to succeed him.
Here is the map of who won what state's primaries in 1968, please note only 13 states out of 50 states had primaries, in the rest, 37 states, the delegates to the national convention was by state convention and LBJ already controlled those by the time of the California primary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_1968
More on the post 1968 reforms that made the primaries the main way to win delegates to the Democratic National Convention:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGovern-Fraser_Commission
Compare that to the 1972 primary campaign:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_1972
Sorry, under the rules that existed in 1968, there was no way RFK could win the nomination. Even if LBJ would have died in office before the Convention, his vice president Humphrey would have inherited what LBJ had set up and thus still received the nomination. Thus no matter what happened after California, Humphrey was going to be the Democratic Nominee for the simple reason LBJ wanted it.
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This is worth reading for the historical background, no matter what your position on the RFK assassination is!
Edited to add: RFK Jr's comments on the background in Dallas reminded me painfully of Oklahoma, where I lived at the time. Our RW asswipe newpapers: The Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune were as bad as Fixed News. And please, please don't make me remember the editorial page of my hometown newspaper! 
