On Sunday, Robert Kennedy Jr. made headlines with his comments during an interview on the Cats Roundtable radio program, where he accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of being involved in the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy Jr. went as far as saying that he believed the evidence was “overwhelming” and that it was “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the CIA played a role in his uncle’s murder.
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RFK Jr. says the CIA killed John F. Kennedy! pic.twitter.com/xoB7SYxDqB
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Just last week, RFK, a Democratic presidential candidate, pledged to eliminate U.S. intelligence agencies’ ability to spy on American citizens if elected. Kennedy expressed his belief that the surveillance state is suppressing dissent against U.S. foreign policy and whistleblowers.
The accusations made by Robert Kennedy Jr. will undoubtedly raise eyebrows. The Kennedy family has never been satisfied with the official explanation of events and has long pushed for a more thorough investigation into the assassination.
The official investigation, known as the Warren Commission, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The Commission did not find evidence of a conspiracy involving the CIA or any other agency.
However, the assassination of President Kennedy remains the subject of much debate and speculation, and numerous conspiracy theories have been proposed over the years, with some of these theories suggesting that the CIA played a role in the assassination.
Some believe that the CIA had a motive to kill Kennedy because he was seen as a threat to the agency’s power and authority. Kennedy had publicly criticized the agency for its handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and had expressed a desire to curtail its covert operations.
The agency had a network of operatives and assets around the world who were capable of carrying out covert operations, and some also believe that these resources were used to plan and execute the assassination.
The agency’s reluctance to release certain documents related to the assassination and its involvement in other covert operations additionally fueled suspicions that it was trying to hide its involvement in the assassination.