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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,395 posts)In fact, he independently verified the "shoddy workmanship" of the WCR by conducting his own independent investigation of the evidence produced by the WC, agreeing with them that there was no evidence whatsoever that Oswald was involved on a conspiracy.
So, on the one side of the scale, we have RFK's de facto involvement with the WCR, acting as an independent agent who publicly vouched for their "no conspiracy" conclusions in 1964, coupled with the fact that he publicly said that he "stands by the WCR" in 1968, fully 4 1/2 years after his brother's murder.
On the other side of the scale, we have conjecture offered without any proof whatsoever that RFK thought that the work of the WC was "shoddy" - which would by definition have to include HIS OWN workmanship independent of the WC that confirmed their findings - offered by others nearly 50 YEARS after the fact, and without ANY documentation from RFK himself, that RFK believed his brother was killed as part of a conspiracy.
Right.
Of course, the big problem with all this is that if we stipulate as true that RFK secretly believed JFK was killed as the result of a conspiracy, we've done nothing but to impeach RFK as a believable witness - a witness who lies when speaking on the record and in public, refusing to speak that which he believes in private to be the truth.
That's the kind of witness that prosecutors just love to see being offered as a defense witness.