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US presidential candidate says the agency’s culpability in his uncle’s murder was “beyond a reasonable doubt”
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has alleged that the CIA was behind the assassination of his uncle, US President John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1963, and likely involved in the murder of his father, US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot dead in 1968.
Speaking during an interview with WABC radio host John Catsimatidis on Sunday, Kennedy Jr. said “There is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in [JFK’s] murder,” describing it as “beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.”
“The evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder, and the coverup,” the candidate continued, describing efforts to discredit this theory as a “60-year coverup.” Kennedy cited the book “JFK and the Unspeakable” by James Douglas as the best compilation of evidence on the subject, though dozens if not hundreds of works have been written about the assassination and the CIA’s alleged role.
The official US government explanation, published as the Warren Commission report the following year, holds that US Marine veteran Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting the president while his motorcade was passing through Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Oswald was famously murdered before he could stand trial, though he managed to tell journalists he was “just a patsy” shortly after his arrest. The alleged lone gunman was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby (real name Jacob Rubinstein) while being transported from Dallas Police Headquarters to the county jail.
Speaking to Catsimatidis, Kennedy added that there was “very convincing but circumstantial” evidence the CIA was involved in the 1968 assassination of his father, Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. He described the official story of the assassination, which was pinned on Palestinian horse groomer Sirhan Sirhan, as physically impossible, arguing Thane Eugene Cesar, a security guard at the hotel who was concurrently employed by military contractor Lockheed, had actually fired the shots that killed Kennedy.
Four years after JFK’s murder, nearly half of the American public did not believe that Oswald had acted alone. The CIA was concerned enough about this fact that it issued a directive in 1967 on how to discredit the so-called “conspiracy theorists” questioning the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Modern use of the term “conspiracy theorist” as a pejorative is often traced back to this 1967 memo.
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Via https://swentr.site/news/575946-cia-killed-jfk-rfk-candidate/
I first studied up on the moon landing 12 years ago, when the information was still readily accessible. Mankind has never developed the technology to travel safely through the Van Allen radiation belt.
One substack I read daily is called coffee and covid. Last week the author included a fun table that showed how various conspiracy theories skew by US political party. I managed to track down the original paper; the REALLY fun table is in the appendix. It shows what the actual percentage of "believers" is by political affiliation. Neither JFK or RFK assassination theory skews much politically. Needless to say, many more people know about the conspiracy angle on the JFK assassination.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9307120/
I was rather surprised to see that the moon landing is one of the least believed conspiracy theories, at about 5 or 6%. But then again, when I initially looked into it, just a few months ago, I had a terrible time finding "pro hoax" sources on the internet. They have been pretty well de-listed from all the search engines and are not referenced in wikipedia.
At the other end: "banks manipulate the economy". Apparently over 80% of people, regardless of political affiliation, believe that. Of course, in a straightforward way, that's true and it's not even a conspiracy theory. The fed does change short term interest rates to try to slow inflation or increase growth. But I guess they are implying something more sinister.