In June of 1968, while campaigning to be the Democratic nominee for President, Robert F. Kennedy had just finished a campaign speech. Upon exiting from the stage, Kennedy was shot three times. He was pronounced dead, several hours later. A hotel employee, Sirhan B. Sirhan, was arrested and charged with RFK’s assassination.
Now, in a stunning report, RFK Jr., having recently met with Sirhan in prison, says he doesn’t believe that Sirhan killed his father.
First some background and video, from the History Channel of that fatal night, followed by the new story from the Washington Post.
Background Courtesy of History.com: Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) served as the U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Kennedy was appointed attorney general after his brother John Kennedy (1917-1963) was elected president in 1960.
In this role, Robert Kennedy fought organized crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. He also served as a close advisor to the president. In the Senate, he was a committed advocate for the poor and racial minorities, and opposed escalation of the Vietnam War.
On June 5, 1968, while in Los Angeles campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy was shot. He died early the next day at age 42. Kennedy, the father of 11 children, was buried at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery near the grave of his brother, John.
From the Washington Post: Just before Christmas, (2017) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, a California state prison complex in the desert outside San Diego that holds nearly 4,000 inmates. Kennedy was there to visit Sirhan B. Sirhan, the man convicted of killing his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, nearly 50 years ago.
While his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, waited in the car, Kennedy met with Sirhan for three hours, he revealed to The Washington Post last week. It was the culmination of months of research by Kennedy into the assassination, including speaking with witnesses and reading the autopsy and police reports.
“I got to a place where I had to see Sirhan,” Kennedy said. He would not discuss the specifics of their conversation. But when it was over, Kennedy had joined those who believe there was a second gunman, and that it was not Sirhan who killed his father.
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