Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not convinced that Sirhan Sirhan fired the shot that killed his father — and wants a new investigation.
Kennedy Jr., 64, made the shocking disclosure in a Washington Post interview after reviewing an autopsy and police reports, speaking with witnesses and spending three hours visiting the convicted assassin in the California prison where he’s serving a life sentence.
“I got to a place where I had to see Sirhan,’’ Kennedy Jr. said, refusing to disclose the specific matters the two men spoke about.
“I went [to the prison] because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence.
“I was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was the chief law-enforcement officer in this country. I think it would have disturbed him if somebody was put in jail for a crime they didn’t commit.”
The assassin struck 50 years ago this June, as Robert Kennedy, then running for president, was leaving a campaign event at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
His son, who was 14 at the time, agrees with conspiracy theorists convinced there was a second gunman.
Sirhan admitted at his 1969 trial that he shot Kennedy, but claimed he had no recollection of it.
Kennedy was hit by four bullets fired into the back of his head — including the fatal shot.
But Sirhan had been standing in front of Kennedy. And over the years, there have been reports that as many as 13 shots had been fired.
The courts have refused multiple times to order a new investigation, according to the Washington Post.
In a recent decision, a judge ruled even if another gunman’s bullet caused the death, it wouldn’t matter — because Sirhan could still be convicted of murder due to his role as an “aider and abettor.”
Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and environmental activist, would like to see a new probe led by his dad’s pal Paul Schrade, a former United Auto Workers official. Schrade was one of five others shot and wounded at the Ambassador Hotel.
Schrade, 93, has said he believes Sirhan’s bullets hit him and the others — but not Kennedy, and persuaded Kennedy Jr. to examine the evidence, the report said.
“Once Schrade showed me the autopsy report,” Kennedy Jr. said, “then I didn’t feel like it was something I could just dismiss. Which is what I wanted to do.”
Kennedy Jr. has been outspoken about other controversies involving his famous family.
2 thoughts on “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t believe Sirhan Sirhan killed his dad”
I read the original “The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy” by Turner and Christian. Sirhan Sirhan’s “confession” was no less the result of “post-hypnotic suggestion” than his presence at the Ambassador Hotel fifty years ago!
Why now? Why wait until the 50th anniversary? Are we to believe RFK Jr. couldn’t get his hands on autopsy information before now? How many people had to be dead and buried before he’d bring up this topic? And it’s been common knowledge for years that Sirhan was in front of Robert Kennedy and that Kennedy was shot from behind. How many people directly around RFK were plants?
But Sirhan was the usual and convenient “lone, crazed, suffering-from-delsions-gunman” used by the elite to eliminate even the elite who are somehow getting in the way of the agenda. There obviously exist levels of hierarchy within the elite. Politicians are generally not high in rank and can easily be eliminated when needed, and the media (the middleman, after all) close ranks to perform their duties to the hierarchy. If it isn’t supposed to be known at all, it won’t be. If it’s meant to only be known by a few who may be paying attention, then fine. The facts will be denied, papered over, and suppressed. The masonic courts ensure no true investigation ever occurs. And only after decades have passed, and when most, if not all of the main players are dead, do the owners feel safe enough to allow certain details to be known. After all, it’s for purposes of “national security” isn’t it?
All we are allowed to do is watch t.v., listen to ‘music’, and work to pay taxes. Ours is not to ask questions.
I read the original “The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy” by Turner and Christian. Sirhan Sirhan’s “confession” was no less the result of “post-hypnotic suggestion” than his presence at the Ambassador Hotel fifty years ago!
Why now? Why wait until the 50th anniversary? Are we to believe RFK Jr. couldn’t get his hands on autopsy information before now? How many people had to be dead and buried before he’d bring up this topic? And it’s been common knowledge for years that Sirhan was in front of Robert Kennedy and that Kennedy was shot from behind. How many people directly around RFK were plants?
But Sirhan was the usual and convenient “lone, crazed, suffering-from-delsions-gunman” used by the elite to eliminate even the elite who are somehow getting in the way of the agenda. There obviously exist levels of hierarchy within the elite. Politicians are generally not high in rank and can easily be eliminated when needed, and the media (the middleman, after all) close ranks to perform their duties to the hierarchy. If it isn’t supposed to be known at all, it won’t be. If it’s meant to only be known by a few who may be paying attention, then fine. The facts will be denied, papered over, and suppressed. The masonic courts ensure no true investigation ever occurs. And only after decades have passed, and when most, if not all of the main players are dead, do the owners feel safe enough to allow certain details to be known. After all, it’s for purposes of “national security” isn’t it?
All we are allowed to do is watch t.v., listen to ‘music’, and work to pay taxes. Ours is not to ask questions.