50 Years After RFK Was Killed, Here are 5 Reasons Why His Own Son Doesn’t Believe the Official Story

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On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just won the  California Democratic presidential primary when he was shot following a  speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As Americans remember the  tragic night 50 years ago, Kennedy’s son is joining with one of the  survivors of the shooting to call for a new investigation. Below are five bombshell reasons explaining exactly why Robert  Kennedy Jr. is justified in calling for this investigation into who  killed his father. 

1. Forensic scientists claim the audio of the shooting  includes 13 shots from two guns, but the “lone gunman” blamed for the  shooting only had one gun with eight bullets  

Sirhan Sirhan was quickly convicted of shooting and killing Kennedy,  and he was labeled as the “lone gunman” in the assassination. According  to reports, he opened fire on Kennedy with a .22-caliber revolver from  three feet away, while the presidential candidate was greeting staff  members in the hotel’s kitchen. Sirhan’s first bullet hit the head of Kennedy’s aide, Paul Schrade,  who was standing six feet behind Kennedy. His second bullet missed  completely, and he fired the last six bullets, wounding four other  people before he was taken down by two hotel staff members who grabbed  his gun. However, while it was only physically possible for Sirhan to  have fired eight shots, audio expert Phil Van Praag determined that 13 shots had been fired from at least two guns. 

 

2. The autopsy report shows the bullet that killed Kennedy  entered his skull behind his right ear—but Sirhan was standing in front  of him

The timing and layout of the shooting placed Sirhan in front of  Kennedy the entire time, but the autopsy report showed that the fatal  shot that took Kennedy’s life, entered his skill from behind his right  ear. Yet investigators have failed to explain the multiple other bullet  holes that were found in the kitchen, or how it was possible for Sirhan  to have fired the shot that killed Kennedy. After he survived the shooting, Schrade has devoted years to pushing  for a new investigation and calling for justice for Sirhan—the man who  allegedly shot him in the head. In a statement, Schrade said, “The  LAPD and LA DA knew two hours after the fatal shooting of Robert  Kennedy that he was shot by a second gunman and they had conclusive  evidence that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan could not and did not do it. The  official record shows that [the prosecution at Sirhan’s trial] never had  one witness—and had no physical nor ballistic evidence—to prove Sirhan  shot Robert Kennedy.”  

 

3. Multiple witnesses have testified that there was a second gunman 

In addition to Schrade’s claim that a second gunman was responsible  for Kennedy’s death, actress Nina Rhodes-Hughes was a witness to the  shooting, and she has testified that she believes there was more than  one shooter. She was behind Kennedy when the shooting started, and while  she remembers seeing Sirhan in front of her, she claims she heard  multiple shots fired from her right-hand side. Rhodes-Hughes told  the Vancouver Sun that not a single police officer questioned her the  night of the shooting, and it was more than a month before FBI agents  arrived at her home for an interview. She said even though she told them  that she heard 12 or 13 shots ring out, the agents’ notes claimed she  said she heard eight rounds—the exact number of bullets in Sirhan’s  gun—and she was never called to testify in court. 

 

4. Sirhan has spent 50 years claiming he does not remember shooting Robert Kennedy 

Sirhan has adamantly claimed that he does not remember the shooting  or the events surrounding it. Harvard psychologist Dr. Daniel Brown  spent 60 hours interviewing Sirhan over the course of three years  leading up to his last parole hearing in 2011, and he determined that Sirhan had likely been subjected to coercive suggestive influence and hypnotic programming. As The Free Thought Project has reported, the CIA’s MKUltra program was ongoing at the time and Dr. Brown’s colleague, former Georgetown Law Professor Alan Scheflin, “discovered  at least three redacted documents describing ‘successful  assassinations’ in other countries using the unconscious assassination  method,” in which a combination of sensory deprivation, hallucinogenic drugs and hypnosis were used to train unconscious assassins. 

 

5. Police have been accused of destroying evidence,  threatening witnesses and intentionally ignoring the possibility of a  second shooter.  

Los Angeles Police and prosecutors have faced heavy scrutiny in the  years since they were instrumental in Sirhan’s conviction. Prosecutors  intentionally withheld the autopsy report from Sirhan’s defense lawyers  for the first six weeks of the trial, and police “failed to  investigate an armed private-security guard who was walking behind  Kennedy at precisely the angle where the fatal shots to Kennedy’s head  and back were fired,” according to a report from the Washington Post. In addition to failing to prevent vital evidence at the trial, Los Angeles Police burned 2,140 police photographs related  to the shooting, and incinerated thousands of documents and pieces of  evidence from the case, including doorframes with bullet holes that  proved more than eight shots were fired. 

Kennedy was pronounced dead 26 hours after he was shot and while there have been many theories surrounding his death, the 50th anniversary marks the first time his son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has openly called  for a new investigation and after visiting the convicted killer in  prison, he has said he does not believe that Sirhan Sirhan was  responsible for his father’s death. 

“I got to a place where I had to see Sirhan,” Kennedy said just after he visited and talked to the man sitting in jail for killing his dad. “I went there because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence,” said Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and the third oldest of his father’s 11 children. 

“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.” 

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Not to mention the fact that Coretta Scott King proved this in court some years ago:

This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. It is important to know that this was a SWIFT verdict, delivered after about an hour of jury deliberation. The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame

http://www.thekingcenter.org/assassination-conspiracy-trial

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