Article: 14431 of alt.conspiracy Xref: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu alt.conspiracy.jfk:1002 alt.conspiracy:14431 Path: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!cc.newcastle.edu.au!ccasm From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy Subject: RFK ASSASSINATION - PART 1 Message-ID: <1992Apr24.171939.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Date: 24 Apr 92 07:19:39 GMT Sender: news@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA Lines: 73 From: Assassination in Our Time, by Sandy Lesberg -------------------------------------------- ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY ___________________________________________________________________________ Born November 20, 1925 Brookline, Massachusetts Died June 5, 1968 Los Angeles, California U.S. Senator from New York; campaigned for Democratic nomination for 1968 presedential election; former Attourney general under his brother, President John F. Kennedy Alleged assassin: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 26 years old, born in Palestine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- With tragic prophecy, John F. Kennedy once said,"I ran for Congress to take the place of my brother Joe. If anything happens to me, Bobby will take my place. And if Bobby gives out, there is Teddy coming along." So it was that Robert Francis Kennedy, 42 years old, seventh of Rose and Joseph Kennedy's nine children, and with his two older brothers dead before him, set out to become president of the United States. Robert Kennedy's whole life had been geared for the challenge of politics. After servingin the Navy, he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School and, by the age of 27, had already served as a prosecutor for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department and managed his brother John's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He then worked for the Senate Permanenant Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, and in a reversal of roles which would from then on catagorise him in some eyes as ruthless, he became chief council for a sub-committee investigating the same Senator McCarthy and his practices of communist "witch hunting". He also gained national status as the man who convicted teamsters' union boss Jimmy Hoffa. Following John Kennedy's successful campaign for president in 1960, he became a ttourney general of the United States, offering, as many felt, a sober and substantial balance to some of the more casual activities of Camelot. After his brother's death he became U.S. senator from New York, waging a grueling and deft campaign against a popular and well-respected Republican incumbent, Senator Kenneth Keating. It was during this time that his own political focus began to come clear. From a pragmatic campaign organiser and political wheeler-dealer that had catyagoride his behind-the-scenes behaviour with his brother John, he gradually found his own unique roots with the people, transforming him inot an idealistic humanitarian whose political drive evolved from responding to the desparate needs of the oppressed. When Lyndon Johnson removed himself from the 1968 presidential race, Kennedy declared his candidacy. His rapid move to the head of the field was spurred by his seemingly magical ability to communicate to an electorate that apparently was ready for his brand of idealism, his visions of conferring dignity to the dispossessed of America. He often expressed his political creed by quoting, "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say, why not." He had just won the vital Californian primary; shortly after midnight on June 5, Kennedy was addressing a crowd at a victory celebration in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The large room was packed with exuberant campaign workers and supporters who crowded around the stage where a jubilant Kennedy, his wife Ethel, standing near him, was saying a few words of thanks to his workers and volunteers and offering congratulations to his Democratic opponent, Senator Eugene McCarthy. He also emphasised his gratitude to Cesar Chavez, leader of the migrant farm workers, whose cause Kennedy had strongly espoused and on whose behalf Ethel Kennedy had become involved. [Part 2 to follow] from Big Al. Article: 14561 of alt.conspiracy Xref: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu alt.conspiracy.jfk:1061 alt.conspiracy:14561 Path: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!cc.newcastle.edu.au!ccasm From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy Subject: RFK ASSASSINATION - PART 3 (final) Message-ID: <1992Apr29.143737.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Date: 29 Apr 92 04:37:37 GMT Sender: news@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA Lines: 57 from: Assassination in Our Time by Sandy Lesberg -------------------------------------------------- ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY ____________________________________________________________________________ continued from part 2.... Sirhan's weapon has never been test-fired, as is usual with standard police procedure, to determine whether or not the recovered bullets were all fired from Sirhan's weapon. In fact, the head of the Los Angeles Police Department Criminology Laboratory unexplainably refused to test-fire the gun during investigations. A young woman with a white polka-dot dress was seen with Sirhan in the hotel kitchen but left shortly before Kennedy started out of the Embassy Ballroom. A campaign worker, Sandy Serrano, saw a woman in a white polka-dot dress, accompanied by two other people, pass her and enter the hotel while Kennedy was speaking in the ballroom. Serrano, still outside after the shooting, saw these same people race out of the hotel and, according to Serrano, the woman in the polka-dot dress shouted "We shot him! We shot Kennedy!". Cathy Fulmer, a woman the police produced as a possible suspect, was not identified by Serrano as the same woman she had seen; Cathy Fulmer was found dead in a motel room several days after the conviction of Sirhan. There is no conclusive finding about her death. The alleged assassin, Sirhan Bishara, was born March 19, 1944, in Jordan. A common name for the area, Sirhan means variously "wolf", "wanderer", or "one who grazes"; Bishara was his father's first name. As is the custom, Sirhan did not use a family name so at the age of 12, when he came with his parents to the U.S., for want of a last name, he doubled his first name, to become Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. The family lived in Pasadena, California, where Sirhan attended high school and then Pasadena City College for a short time. Slight of frame, 5 feet 2 inches, 120 pounds, he hoped to become a jockey and started apprenticeship at Hollywood Park as a horse boy. Later, as tensions mounted between Jordan and Israel over the Palestinians, Sirhan was known to be deeply concerned over the matter. The occupations and whereabouts of Sirhan are unclear in the later part of of 1967 and into 1968, but among his belongings were later found several newspaper clippings which defamed Robert Kennedy, along with careful records of where Kennedy would be appearing during the California primary campaign. In his diary was the entry, "Robert Kennedy must be killed before June 5, 1968." In searching for motivations to explain why the Jordanian-born Sirhan would have attempted to assassinate Senator Kennedy, many people focused on the Palestinian tensions and the fact that Kennedy strongly supported a pro-Israel stance. There were the clippings and the diary memos, which lend support to this idea. However as of this writing, Sirhan is, according to doctors, unable to recall drawing or firing a gun on June 5. Doctors contend that inability to recall an act, either conciously or at a subconcious level, can indicate either a mental disorder or some kind of programming input or behavioural modification, caused by an external influence acting with deliberation. With no history of mental disorders, the possibility of a conspiracy involved in programming the alleged single assassin simply cannot be dismissed ............ from Big Al. Article: 14542 of alt.conspiracy Xref: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu alt.conspiracy.jfk:1047 alt.conspiracy:14542 Path: umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!cc.newcastle.edu.au!ccasm From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy Subject: RFK ASSASSINATION PART 2 Message-ID: <1992Apr28.131118.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Date: 28 Apr 92 03:11:18 GMT Sender: news@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA Lines: 96 From: Assassination in Our Time, by Sandy Lesberg ------------------------------------------------ ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY __________________________________________________________________________ Continued from Part 1..... Leaving the ballroom, Kennedy and his wife with staff and aides, including athletes Roosevelt "Rosie" Grier and Raffer Johnson, and a local private body-guard Thane Cesar, made their way into a corridor which would lead them through a hotel kitchen to another room where a press conference was scheduled. Waiting in the narrow, fluorescent-lit kitchen corridor were several television cameramen; the maitre-d'hotel Carl Uecker, and hotel employees Jesus Perez and Juan Romero. Also waiting was Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, armed with a .22-caliber eight-shot Iver Johnson pistol. Each man waited for his own purpose. Shaking hands as he went, Kennedy was moving slowly down the corridor when Sirhan fired: once, twice, crying out something unintelligible. He fired all eight shots before he was tackled from every side to screams of "Rafer, get the gun -- get the fucking gun!" Kennedy lay mortally wounded and five others in the corridor sustained bullet wounds. Rafer Johnson and Rosie Grier had grabbed Sirhan as much to protect him from the shocked and furious crowd as to subdue him. Ethel Kennedy knelt by her husband, trying to keep the crushing crowd away. Kennedy's only words were, "How bad is it?" Juan Romero placed a rosary in his hands. Kennedy had been hit by three bullets, two entering his armpit and another entering his right mastoid from behind his left ear. He was rushed in an ambulance to Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital for massive brain surgery. The damage, however, was too great and Senator Robert F. Kennedy died. =============================================================================== .----------------------------------. [Among the several photos of RFK with his | | brothers and family is one standing with | | his wife at the Ambassador Hotel, June 5, | ^^^^^^^ | making his victory speech, minutes before | | being gunned down. | 0 0 | Another photo shows a close-up of Sirhan. | [ ] | Another shows the shooting scene with the | ^ | following caption: "The crowd, with ex | | football player Roosevelt Grier in the | \___/ | foreground, grabbing Sirhan after he `----------------------------------' began shooting." Sirhan is in a headlock. Another photo has the caption: "In Amman, Jordan, the father of Sirhan studies a Jordanian magazine which bears a picture of his son". The father is dressed in robes with typical arabian headwear. The full-page photo on page 223 shows RFK on his back on the floor of the kitchen, shirt open to the waist with a male taking his pulse at the wrist, as Ethel kneels beside him. Caption reads "Moments after the shots were fired".] =============================================================================== Even now (1976) there are many unexplained inconsistencies and counter evidence that dispute the single assassin theory which was the official finding. In all, ten bullets were recovered from the assassination scene; two of the three bullets fired at Kennedy lodged in his brain and neck; five bullets lodged in each of five other people hit (Paul Schrade, Elizabeth Evan, Ira Goldstein, Irwin Stroll and William Weisel); three bullets were recovered from different locations in the kitchen area. Sirhan's pistol could only fire eight shots without reloading, which he did not have the opportunity to do. Since there were two bullets unaccounted for, it is apparent that at least one other weapon was fired at the time. Simple arithmetics argues against the official finding! In the official medical report, Dr. Thomas Noguchi concluded theat the bullet entering Kennedy's right mastoid and penetrating the brain was the cause of death. It was Dr. Noguchi's expert opinion, given in testimony at the investigation, that the fatal bullet was fired at a range of not more than two or three inches from Kennedy's head. However, no witness who testified ever placed Sirhan any closer to the Senator than two feet during the time he was firing his pistol. Thane Cesar, the Security guard, was standing directly behind Kennedy and admitted drawing his gun after Sirhan began firing. Ceasr conceded his gun might have gone off, but asserted that he did not shoot at Kennedy. Why has his gun not been test-fired for comparison? Criminologist William W. Harper compared the bullet which entered Kennedy's armpit with the bullet removed from William Weisel and found that the bullets had no common characteristics and sharply differing rifling marks -- indicating that the bullets could not have come from the same gun. Further, Harper stated that, based on the available evidence, Kennedy was shot at least once from a position completely removed from where Sirhan was standing. Harper therefore concluded that a second weapon was involved and that two different firing postures were used in the shootings. His findings and conclusions are supported by a number of authoritative experts, including three other qualified criminologists (Dr. Herbert L. MacDonell, Vincent P. Quinn and Lowell Bradford). Part 3 to follow.... from Big Al. [Except where indicated as captions, the photo details above between the ==== are mine, not the author's]