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BigmanPigman

(55,361 posts)
Wed Apr 22, 2026, 09:11 PM 14 hrs ago

I just checked in on Sirhan Sirhan, RFK's assassin [View all]

Out of curiosity I wanted to see if he died yet and he is still alive in jail near San Diego. Newsom blocked his release for parole. Then I learned that Bobby Kennedy Jr visited him in prison 8 years ago and he believes Sirhan didn't kill his father.....

"In 1989, Sirhan told British journalist David Frost: 'My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 fighter jets to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians.' Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the United States stemming from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict."

"The assassination spawned many conspiracy theories, many of which claimed there was a "second gunman" or that Sirhan was not the true killer. In a 2018 interview with The Washington Post, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he had traveled to California to meet with Sirhan in prison and, after a relatively long conversation (the details of which he would not disclose), had come to believe that Sirhan did not kill his father and that a second gunman was involved."

So RFK jr believes in conspiracy theories, my my, what a surprise.

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