Attorneys for RFK convicted killer Sirhan push ‘second gunman’ argument
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/04/justice/california-rfk-second-gun/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
I admit to being a long-time conspiracy theorist regarding the JFK assassination. I based that almost entirely on the behavior of Oswald as I felt he wasn’t reacting as I would have expected (the majority of assassins are all to happy to brag about their involvement), but that changed when I saw an interview with his brother. His brother stated that he had no qualms about Lee’s involvement and found Lee’s non-denial denials to be perfectly in alignment with what he knew of Lee. Lee’s brother indicated that Lee was intent on being ‘someone’ and simply assassinating the President wouldn’t have been enough. Lee would want to preserve his ‘day in the sun’ as long as possible, according to his brother, so would have wanted to have the full trial. Thus Lee would have avoided admitting his involvement, but according to Lee’s brother, the word choices Lee made in the few statements recorded made it clear that Lee was responsible. The forensics, to me anyway, are unequivocal that shots were all fired from the book depository window by a single person. There is no magic in the ‘magic bullet’, the forensic recreations based on the film are crystal clear that the bullet’s trajectory was perfectly in line with the book depository at the time it was fired. The only question in my mind was if Oswald was that single gunman or if he was set up as a patsy with someone else taking the shots.
However, reading the above article sure provides a bunch of plausible information that RFK’s assassination was part of some conspiracy. I haven’t looked into the forensics at all (beyond what is reported in the article) and because crime scene analysis was light years away from today’s CSI-inspired reality (and of course, lacking the definitive film evidence like we had with JFK) we are pretty much left with crap. If the reports in the article are accurate (meaning Sirhan was too far away to leave powder burns and the bullets entered from back-to-front and from bottom-to-top) and one exclusively considers the witness reports recovered immediately after the attack (witness reports are well-known to evolve over time, even when there isn’t huge media influence (of course witness reports are barely worth considering since they tend to be contradictory and sometimes wildly inaccurate)) it seems that Sirhan never had the chance to fire at such close range so even if RFK had turned and ducked (as one might easily believe) there would still have been no powder burns. Throw on top of that what seems undisputed in the article that the bullets recovered from the scene were all ‘lost’ and the ones that were shown in court were replicas (so hard to imagine that today) and there being inconsistent reporting on how many bullets were recovered and how may bullet holes (including those in people) documented and it sure seems like there is tons of room to let in conspiracy without needing to be a tinfoil hat wearing Internet troll.
I am not, however, motivated to explore further. I already don’t trust my government and I am already confident that my government lies to me on a regular basis on even the most trivial of subjects (just spend a few moments reading Pat Tillman if you need anything) so investing the time and energy to further convince me that my government is lying would just be a waste of energy.
