RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas
DALLAS (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn't solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship."
Kennedy and his sister, Rory, were interviewed by Charlie Rose on Friday night in front of an audience in Dallas as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the president's death.
Their uncle was killed on Nov. 22, 1963. Five years later, their father was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel during his primary victory celebration.
Robert Kennedy said his father spent a year trying to come to grips with his brother's death. He said his read writings by Greek philosophers, Catholic scholars, poets and Henry David Thoreau "trying to figure out kind of the existential implications of why a just God would allow injustice to happen of the magnitude he was seeing."
He said his father believed the Warren Commission, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship." He said that he, too, questioned the report.
"The evidence at this point is convincing that it wasn't a lone gunman," he said, but he didn't say what he believed may have happened.
The attorney and well-known environmentalist also told the audience light-hearted stories Friday about memories of his uncle.
As a young child with an interest in the environment, he recalled, he made an appointment with his uncle to speak with him in the Oval Office about pollution.
He'd even caught a salamander to present to the president, which unfortunately died before the meeting.
"He kept saying to me, 'It doesn't look well,'" Robert Kennedy recalled.
Kennedy and his sister, Rory, were interviewed by Charlie Rose on Friday night in front of an audience in Dallas as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the president's death.
Their uncle was killed on Nov. 22, 1963. Five years later, their father was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel during his primary victory celebration.
Robert Kennedy said his father spent a year trying to come to grips with his brother's death. He said his read writings by Greek philosophers, Catholic scholars, poets and Henry David Thoreau "trying to figure out kind of the existential implications of why a just God would allow injustice to happen of the magnitude he was seeing."
He said his father believed the Warren Commission, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship." He said that he, too, questioned the report.
"The evidence at this point is convincing that it wasn't a lone gunman," he said, but he didn't say what he believed may have happened.
The attorney and well-known environmentalist also told the audience light-hearted stories Friday about memories of his uncle.
As a young child with an interest in the environment, he recalled, he made an appointment with his uncle to speak with him in the Oval Office about pollution.
He'd even caught a salamander to present to the president, which unfortunately died before the meeting.
"He kept saying to me, 'It doesn't look well,'" Robert Kennedy recalled.
The same people who believe the current presdient has cut federal spending and reduced the deficit, or that everything is the fault of those nasty women hating and immigrant hating ....racists...the republicans. They would believe in magic bullets also.
The evidence was overwhelming that there were more people involved than Oswald. And why would the evidence be sealed for 50 years? And now reports are saying a lot of the evidence is missing.
Then you look at the names of the people on the Warren Commission and you can understand why it was all sealed for 50 years.
I thought JFK was killed by a tiger.
The Warren Commission was a total pile of trash. You can always tell a cover-up because its riddled with absurd theories backed by a handful of quack "experts" while everyone else scratches their head. But hey, atleast we learned bullets can be influenced by "magic."
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 @Suspishissofu I don't think LBJ was behind the killing, but I think he was part of the "post-JFK" plan. I personally believe the Federal Reserve took JFK out. He was well on his way of putting them out of business permanently, and they had control of the nations money supply for the past 50 years prior.Â
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JFK was not a "yes man" and I think that's what got him killed. I think the same thing would have happened to Ron Paul if he was elected.
Many witnesses were dismissed (not allowed) to testify in the controlled Warren Commission about seeing a shooter on the grassy knoll.It definitely was a cover-up.I remember watching the events unfold back in 1963 on Television when I was very young but didn't comprehend much of it (being a preteen at the time).
We watched it on a round Cathode Ray tubed 1948 black and white Zenith television console (it also had a record player and a radio in the wood cabinet console.
I still have a nostalgia about watching the sad old 60's documentary Four Days in November.
At first I couldn't remember the name of the film about the Presidents Assassination but remembered the narrator Richard Basehart (who played the Admiral in the 60's Sci Fi Television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) and just goggled it..It's on Youtube.
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The movie was EXECUTIVE ACTION had Burt Lancaster and Will Geer.
All you have to do is lookup "Operation Northwoods" and also executive order 11110 to know exactly why JFK was murdered.
That was a very sad day for the whole world for losing a great leader !
 @scychan John F. Kennedy was probably the last REAL great American President. He was also the last Democratic president to propose an across the board tax cut. He was a huge supporter of sound money...just a fantastic President.
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Surely you don't mean Ronald Reagan, the criminal who illegally sold arms to the contras. They guy who raised taxes three times after making a show of a tiny tax cut at the start of his term. You can't mean the guy who was brain dead by the end of his administration. I hope you're not referring to the guy who took credit for the fall of the Soviet Union when they actually did it to themselves. You don't mean THAT Ronal Reagan!