Robert Kennedy Jr. blames CIA for assassination of JFK and claims it is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’
- White House contender says there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ of CIA cover up
- Kennedy has previously cited links between the CIA and Lee Harvey Oswald
- Said he was running because he felt his ‘party had been stolen’ by neocons
Democratic White House contender Robert Kennedy Jr. has repeated the conspiratorial claim that the CIA assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy Jr. said it was ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ that the agency was responsible for murdering his uncle in Dallas, Texas in 1963.
He told John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s ‘Cats Roundtable’ that ‘the evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder and the cover up’.
Kennedy Jr. cited ‘JFK and the Unspeakable’, a book by James Douglas, as the best distillation of documentary evidence, which he claims proves the CIA’s involvement.
The agency’s website references an article describing its involvement in the assassination as a ‘lie’.
Democratic White House contender Robert Kennedy Jr. has repeated the conspiratorial claim that the CIA assassinated President John F. Kennedy
The JFK assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963 has sparked a swathe of wild conspiracy theories about what happened on that fateful day
The CIA’s website references an article describing its involvement in the assassination as a ‘lie’
The US Government’s official investigation into the killing, the Warren Commission Report of 1964, found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and there was no credible evidence linking him to a wider plot.
This is not the first time Kennedy Jr. has claimed the CIA was responsible for his uncle’s murder. Last year, he cited the theory that Oswald was a ‘CIA asset’, during an interview with The Megyn Kelly Show.
He also retweeted a clip of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving his view on the CIA’s alleged involvement, alongside the caption: ‘The most courageous newscast in 60 years. The CIA’s murder of my uncle was a successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.’
Researchers examining the JFK assassination last year claimed to have discovered evidence Oswald was involved in an operation by the CIA months before the fatal shooting.
Jefferson Morley – an expert on the assassination with the Mary Ferrell Foundation – told reporters that he and attorneys with the foundation had found documents that showed ‘the CIA knew far more about the lone gunman than they are admitting even today’.
His bold claim came a month before The National Archives released thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of the official investigation into the assassination.
The move was a bid to restore faith in the transparency of government following the pandemic and to dispel myths surrounding JFK’s killing.
Public polling shows a majority of Americans do not believe the Warren Commission’s finding that Oswald acted alone.
The CIA said in a series of statements that many of its records released in the latest batch post-date Kennedy’s shooting and do ‘not change the historical record and has no bearing on the assassination or the investigation itself’.
‘Likewise, we are not aware of any documents known to be directly related to [Lee Harvey Oswald] that have not already been made part of the Collection,’ an agency spokesperson said.
In December, Kennedy Jr. praised a clip of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving his view on the CIA’s alleged involvement
The US Government’s official investigation into the assassination found that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Oswald (centre) pictured here as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquarters
American president John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) is struck by an assassin’s bullet as he travels through Dallas in a motorcade, 22nd November 1963. In the car next to him is his wife Jacqueline (1929 – 1994) and in the front seat is Texas governor John Connall
Outside Cathedral St Matthew John John Kennedy salutes his father’s coffin with members of the Kennedy family (L-R) From left: Senator Edward Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy during the funeral on November 25, 1963 in Washington DC, United States
The fact that the CIA knew of Oswald is not a smoking gun – as it had already been revealed that the Government knew more about the circumstances surrounding the JFK assassination than it had acknowledged publicly.
And its existence does not prove a CIA plot to kill the president, as some theories have claimed.
During the interview with WABC, Kennedy Jr. also laid out the ‘fundamental differences’ between himself and President Joe Biden, his ‘close personal friend’ and rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In particular, he claimed the 46th US President had allowed foreign policy to be dictated by the same neoconservative ideology that plunged the country into the Iraq War, comparing that disastrous campaign to the current war in Ukraine.
‘I feel like my country is being stolen and my party is being stolen and I feel like I need to speak out against that,’ he said.
Kennedy Jr. described President Biden’s policy in ‘expanding’ the war in Europe as ‘misguided and extremely dangerous’.
‘We went in there on a humanitarian mission – we were told – and yet that mission has now changed to a broader mission to degrade and exhaust the Russian Army,’ he added.
‘We are playing the Ukraine in a geopolitical proxy war with the Russians…Ukraine lives are being sacrificed.’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event where he announced his run for president on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, in Boston
The environmental lawyer also hit out at costly lockdowns and policies that had waged a ‘war’ against middle class Americans, claiming the Democrats had ‘become the party of big corporations’.
Asked about the current border chaos, the 69-year-old argued for ‘closed borders’ but an expansion of legal immigration.
‘It’s not racist or insensitive to say that we need to close our border and have an orderly immigration policy,’ he said.
‘I would expand legal immigration to this country that is orderly and makes sense to our country. But I would make sure also that our borders are impervious. The humanitarian crisis that we now have on our border is cruel to people who have been drawn there by these open border policies.’
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