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In reply to the discussion: Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)there's no story there. Bobby Kennedy was Attorney General at the time that the Warren Commission was convened. He had it within his power to significantly affect the investigation and to not accept the conclusions; he did not do so. He was in fact supportive in public of the conclusions of the Warren Commission. The inconvenient bit of the whole "RFK believed in a conspiracy" thing, for our latter-day conspiracy nutters, is the fact that if he did, it wasn't the sort of conspiracy they believe in. If RFK believed it was a conspiracy? He believed it was a Communist conspiracy. The KGB, or Castro, and probably the latter, given that he was intimately aware of the CIA's Operation Mongoose. So the reason he never said anything, even if he thought it? The Cuban Missile Crisis was a year in the past. The possibility of a very real war with the Soviets or Cuba was in the offing if the American public thought that an American president had been assassinated as a result of some Communist conspiracy. Never mind that the CIA had been attempting without success to assassinate Castro on multiple occasions, by then; if RFK's suspicions had been correct it would only have been what Malcolm X called "chickens coming home to roost".