40 years after RFK's death, questions linger

[ailsagirl]

(06-02) 20:11 PDT -- The assassination was over in a few seconds. In the photograph of that moment, Bobby Kennedy, his eyes open and glazed, lies on his back on a hotel pantry floor, his head cradled by a busboy dressed starkly in white - a tableau that seems almost angelic were it not so brutal.

Less than 26 hours after being shot early on June 5, 1968, right after winning the California presidential primary, Kennedy was dead. He was 42.

Three major assassinations rocked America in the 1960s. Two of the assassins - Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, and James Earl Ray, who shot Martin Luther King Jr. - are dead. But Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago this week in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is living out his days in the California state prison at Corcoran. He is 64 and has never fully explained what happened that night other than to say he can't remember it.

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Dan Moldea, who wrote a book, "The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means and Opportunity," said he thought for years that "Cesar had done it." But in 1987 he persuaded Cesar to undergo a polygraph examination that the former guard "passed with flying colors," Moldea said.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/MNN110S5KH.DTL

[Prophet 451]

1. Sirhan couln't have fired that shot, where's the question?

RFK was shot from behind, from a distance of no more than a few inches. Sirhan was at least four feet away and in front of him (backed up by every single photo, statement and piece of evidence). Ergo, Sirhan could not possibly have fired the fatal shot.

Of course, who did fire the fatal shot and, more importantly, why is an open question. I've always thought that the most likely explanation was that when Sirhan started shooting, RFK's bodyguards returned fire and in the confusion, accidently shot Kennedy.

[MinM]

2. Re: 40 years after RFK's death, questions linger

Thanks...

for posting that.

[tom_paine]

3. Operation MK-Ultra.

The Bushies killed the Kennedy brothers, and possible JFK Jr., as well.

They were in the way.

http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/03/evidence-that-cia-murdered-rfk.html