I have been on both sides of this issue over the last 40 years. I am a professional historian wih a Master's in the subject and I am convinced without any doubt that Oswald the lone shooter who acted alone. I won't argue this with anybody, just letting my opinion known.
That said, I am just as convinced that Robert Kennedy's rear head wound which killed him was caused by Robert Kennedy's rent-a-cop who was attempting to shoot Sirhan, but shot Robert Kennedy in the back of the head as Kennedy was falling from the front bullet wounds given to him by Sirhan. The rent-a-cop was armed with a .22 caliber pistol as was Sirhan. I do not believe there was a conspiracy to kill Robert Kennedy. I think Sirhan did it alone because he saw Kennedy on TV promising Israel that he would sell them a dozen jet fighters while campaigning at a Jewish event in New York. I do believe that the real manner of Kennedy's death was covered up, not to protect malicious forces against RFK, but to cover up the real cause of his death to make his legacy more palatable. Can you remember RFK as a man shot by a security guard? There were two 16mm films taken of the assassination. They were both high quality cameras with lighting and sound. These were TV news cameras. One crew was directly behind Sirhan. The cameras and film were confiscated by the police immediatly after the shooting and disappeared. They stayed on the evidence manifest until 1980 when they were destroyed by the LAPD. Can you imagine destroying two films of a historical event? It would be like the Dallas police destroying the Zapruder film without letting anyone look at it. Only about a half a dozen people watched these films. The independent channel was snubbed out of following RFK through the pantry, but just after the other two other TV stations had their cameras confiscated and put outside, the independent cameraman was able to get in and filmed RFK slipping out of conciousness for the last time.
An interesting fact for MLK week: It wasn't J. Edgar Hoover who ordered illegal wiretapping of MLK, it was Robert Kennedy.
Last edited by MagnusDippytack; 01-17-2012 at 08:55 PM.
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