In a December 16, 2022 tweet, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused the CIA of assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy. He referred to JFK's assassination as a "successful coup."
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"The most daring broadcast in 60 years. "The killing of my uncle by the CIA was a successful coup from which democracy never recovered," RFK Jr. tweeted, referencing a Fox News program by Tucker Carlson.
In recent years, Robert F. Kennedy has adopted a number of contentious opinions. Earlier, RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy's son, questioned the official story about his father's death, claiming that audio evidence and gunshot trajectories contradict the lone shooter idea. Some members of the Kennedy family have criticized him for his vaccination beliefs. The latter elicited a criticism in 2019 from three Kennedy family members, who stated that RFK Jr. was "tragically mistaken regarding vaccinations," according to Politico.
The other members of the Kennedy family have yet to respond to RFK Jr.'s remarks concerning the CIA and John F. Kennedy's killing. Pressure from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the parole of Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of murdering his father, split the family, with two brothers embracing his appeal, but six others including Ethel Kennedy objecting.
The Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin, but Tucker Carlson asserted that the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination.
Tucker Carlson stated in the show supplied by RFK Jr. that he had spoken with someone who has direct knowledge of the documents the government is currently holding on the killing of John F. Kennedy.
"We spoke with someone who had access to these classified records," Carlson explained, adding that he questioned the person if the CIA "had a hand in the killing of John F. Kennedy, an American president."
Yes, the answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It's an entirely different nation than we imagined. "It's all a hoax," Carlson says the guy said. He would not name the individual, but claimed he was "not a conspiracy theorist that we spoke to" but was "someone with firsthand knowledge" of material that "was once against being concealed from the American public." ".
Carlson claims that all of the persons identified in the documents that the government still has are deceased. According to him, the CIA is a "government within a government."
Carlson mentioned that another purported lone gunman, Jack Ruby, murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, who was recognized by the Warren Commission as the lone gunman who assassinated JFK. "What are the possibilities of that?" he wondered.
Carlson referred to it as a "bizarre sequence of killings," and the Warren Commission was described as "shoddy and crooked."
He accused the CIA of forcing him to declare "under pressure that he had suppressed information from investigators regarding his contact with Lee Harvey Oswald," and said that the term "conspiracy theory" did not enter the American vernacular until 1964.
The program's title was "The CIA and JFK." According to Carlson, the queries have "multiplied over time."
He said that a doctor "working for the CIA at the time" called Louis Jolyon West visited Ruby in jail and determined that he was "technically mad," notwithstanding Ruby's appearance to others. "What was he doing in Jack Ruby's jail cell?" Carlson inquired.
"You can see why folks who aren't insane are curious about what occurred," he added.
He mentioned that a special House committee reinvestigated the JFK assassination in 1976 and concluded that the president was slain as part of a conspiracy. According to Carlson, the "obvious suspect was the CIA."
Congress approved a records collection statute in 1992 that required complete disclosure of federal materials relating to the killing by 2017, but Carlson claimed that didn't happen under the Donald Trump or Joe Biden administrations.
"We can't see them anymore," he added of the thousands of documents still being stored. "It is to safeguard an institution. "However, why?"
The theory that the CIA had a hand in the assassination of JFK has been around for years
The CIA's version of JFK's assassination is not a new one. Rolling Stone ran an article titled "The Last Confession of E. Howard Hunt" in 2007. It's one of several investigative works looking at the CIA's suspected ties to Oswald and the killing.
"In the CIA, he helped arrange the violent removal of a democratically elected Marxist president in Guatemala and aided in the subterfuges that led to Che Guevara's killing," the magazine stated of Hunt.
That report is based on the narrative of Hunt's son, St. John, who claims his father admitted to knowing about JFK's killing. According to Rolling Stone:
That time in Miami, with Saint at his bedside and the disease eating away at him and him thinking he was six months from death, E. Howard finally put pen to paper and began to write…E. Howard scrawled the initials 'LBJ', which stands for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Below 'LBJ', connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; she was later murdered, a case that was never solved. Next, his father connected Meyer's name with the name of Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; Also connected to Meyer's name was the name of David Morales, another CIA man and a notorious specialist in particularly vicious clandestine operations. And then his father connected Morales's name with a line, framed with the words "French Gunslinger Grassy Knoll."
RFK Jr. has previously questioned whether Sirhan Sirhan was the lone assassin who murdered his father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Thane Cesar is the security guard who was with Robert F. Kennedy when he was killed in Los Angeles, a crime for which Sirhan Sirhan was convicted.
César had a reasonably calm existence and raised a family in the Philippines for many years. On September 11, 2019, only hours after Cesar's death, Kennedy's son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used Instagram to make the case that Cesar "murdered my father."
RFK Jr., who visited the man convicted of his father's murder, Sirhan Sirhan, in jail, has previously raised public doubts about an issue that some felt was already closed but that investigators have questioned for years: Who assassinated President John F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles?
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted guilty in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. He confessed it during his trial, but it was done strategically because his lawyers were pursuing a reduced capacity case. He also stated that he had no recollection of the crime. Some feel he was a pawn in a greater scheme. Sirhan Sirhan was clearly present and very likely opened fire (even RFK Jr. says that Sirhan Sirhan was shooting towards RFK). Several witnesses saw Sirhan Sirhan shoot Kennedy. He also published articles in journals regarding assassinating RFK. In his notebook, he wrote, "RFK must die," and officials believed the timing of the assassination was tied to the "first anniversary of the Six Day War."
The fundamental question is whether he killed RFK or whether the candidate was murdered by a second gunman's bullet. In 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about the killing, adding that the coroner "said that the fatal shot was discharged less than an inch from Kennedy's head behind the right ear." Four bullets were fired from behind, but Sirhan responded with a.22 "from a few feet in front of Kennedy." The handgun was loaded with eight bullets, but "a radio reporter's tape of the shooting had sounds of what one audio specialist described as 13 shots" and "double shootings," according to The Chronicle, summarizing the primary concerns.