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John F Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, got assassinated in 1963 during his incumbency. And just when the country seemed to recover, five years later, his younger brother, Robert F Kennedy, a Senator and United States Attorney General, was shot dead. Many conspiracy theories and concoctions abound over the President’s death. Over the years, a similar number found their way to having a bearing on the country’s sixty-fourth Attorney General. The latter’s son, Robert Kennedy Jr., who announced his candidacy for the 2024 Presidential elections, however, believes there’s more to it than meets the eye.

For Americans, the Kennedys are the closest thing to a Royal Family. The Irish-Roman Catholic family reached the American shores sometime in the mid-nineteenth century. Over the next century, they established their name in politics. But sadly, the clan found itself sunk in gloom with the assassinations. Reams of literature and reel appeared on two of the most sensational killings in American political history.

An echo from the past, a son ponders over his father’s assassination

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The court of law held Palestinian-Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan responsible for the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. Now seventy-nine years old, he is serving time in a Californian correctional facility. So Robert F Kennedy Jr. met Sirhan in 2017. As per a 2018 article in The Washington Post, he believes that the investigations need a revisit since the crime scene included a second gunman.

@CitizenFreePres shared a ten-minute footage of Kennedy Jr. in discussion with Mike Tyson and Eben Britton on June 6. The message read, “YouTube has deleted this interview between Robert F Kennedy Jr and Mike Tyson. In it, RFK JR claimed the CIA assassinated his father.” As he took them through the historical incident, around the three-minute mark, the environmental lawyer said that his father received four shots, and the person who fired stood behind him. He fired around the same time as Sirhan Sirhan started, which was a distraction.

Kennedy Jr. said, “…..and the person who almost certainly fired those shots was a security guard who was holding my father’s arm at that time. Called Eugene Thane Caeser. And a dozen saw him with his gun drawn……Caeser, as it turns out, was, is a CIA asset. He died about three weeks ago. And he died in the Philippines, where he’s lived for the past three decades. And he’s almost certainly the person [who], who killed my father.”

Robert F Kennedy Jr. shares more details with Mike Tyson and Eben Britton

Over the course of the discussion, he took Mike Tyson and Britton through details, such as how a particular unit of the LAPD called the Special Unit Center carried out the investigation. Constituted by ex-CIA agents, according to him, “…they destroyed before Sirhan’s trial, and they destroyed twelve hundred pages of evidence, including all the bullets. And twelve hundred photographs as well that were taken in the room that night.

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Then he also spoke about Sirhan’s attorney, who incidentally represented Johnny Roselli, who ran a club besides being the CIA’s liaison to the mob. According to Kennedy Jr., the attorney told Sirhan to plead guilty. He said, “.in the middle of all that, he was appointed Sirhan’s attorney. He told Sirhan to plead guilty. If Sirhan had pleaded innocent. There was no way he could have [been] convicted. Because the bullets that were in his gun, the bullets that killed my father, did not match the ballistics of the bullets in his gun.” 

Unsurprisingly, over 2 million have viewed the post since it came, and the number of retweets crossed the 5k mark. Nevertheless, it establishes without a doubt how the Kennedy assassinations still fascinate the American public despite the five decades since they have occurred.

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