With the film Bobby, director-writer Emilio Estevez
captures a snapshot of 1968 America, and the many hopes and dreams lifted and
crushed on the night Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. But the real story
that still begs to be told begins where Bobby leaves off: with the
assassination itself.
For it is only through investigation of the assassination
and its cover-up, the murder�s direct connection to the other 1960s
assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and others), and its
relevance to subsequent (and also directly connected) wars and political crimes
(Nixon/Watergate, Iran-Contra, and both Bush administrations) -- that the soul
of the American Empire is truly revealed.
RFK case wide open
The RFK assassination was, like the assassinations of JFK,
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other prominent figures, a political
murder committed by operatives and agents of the US government (including, but
limited to, the CIA and FBI), in conjunction with local police (operating as
CIA cutouts), and intelligence-connected organized crime figures and
mercenaries.
There is overwhelming evidence that the RFK murder was a CIA
operation involving the Los Angeles Police Department.
More proof continues to emerge, including this fresh piece
of evidence uncovered by BBC
investigator Shane O�Sullivan. Conducting research for his own film on the
RFK assassination, O�Sullivan has identified and corroborated the presence and
identities of three former CIA operatives at the crime scene:
Michael Ruppert, former Los Angeles Police detective,
author, journalist and editor of From
The Wilderness, conducted his own
investigation of the RFK assassination, tapping into inside contacts deep
within the LAPD. His investigation definitively proves that the assassination
was a CIA operation, and names some of the perpetrators:
Following the trail of evidence
If there is a call to action inspired by Bobby, it
must not stop with a revival of the causes that purportedly died with RFK. It
must begin with a furious worldwide call to break down the doors of the
national security state, with the immediate reopening of real and legitimate
investigations into not only the RFK assassination, but every other political
murder and crime of the past 40 years. The CIA, the FBI and other agencies must
be held accountable.
Nothing less will do.
The RFK assassination physical evidence was, predictably,
destroyed, manipulated, and subjected to a massive and continuing cover-up
shortly after the murder. Investigations have been meticulously sabotaged.
Whistleblowers, eyewitnesses, investigators and researchers have been silenced
and murdered. The
Kennedys, physical evidence and 9/11
The crime scene, the kitchen of the historic Ambassador
Hotel, was manipulated shortly after the assassination by the LAPD, but not
before many forensic investigators, including Chief LA Medical Examiner Thomas
Noguchi, raised questions that, to this day, remain unanswered -- and still
offer a compelling and damning case for a conspiracy. The Ambassador was
demolished in 2005. It is sickening, but no surprise, that this hallowed ground
was torn down by the city of Los Angeles, despite the legal petitions before
the California Supreme Court to save the site. RFK
Assassination Far From Resolved It is bitterly ironic that the Bobby film
was shot in the ruins of the Ambassador just before the building went down
forever.
Sirhan Sirhan, the manipulated
patsy who could not have committed the RFK murder as described by the
ridiculous official version, has languished in prison for years, awaiting a
retrial. His attorney, Lawrence Teeter, fought for years to reopen the RFK
case, but died in July 2005.
Still, there is more than ample evidence, old and new, that
demands that the case be reopened.
With respect to the RFK assassination specifically, there is
a wealth of information waiting to be found, bought, read, studied and
absorbed. The many sources include the following:
- Philip
Melanson was a professor of political science, a specialist in the
study of political violence, and the former director of the Robert F. Kennedy
Assassination Archives. Melanson, one of the premier RFK assassination
authorities, died in September 2006, just as he was completing a new work exposing
US government drug trafficking. Tragically, Melanson joins Gary Webb atop
the list of courageous and recently deceased investigators of the same
milieu. The Archive
still exists (under someone else�s direction). Follow the link to the extensive list
of Melonson's books and articles, which include The Robert F.
Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up
(1991) and Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy (1997).
- Gaeton
Fonzi, The Last Investigation (1993)
- Lawrence Teeter, attorney
representing Sirhan Sirhan, fought doggedly to reopen the RFK case for
years. In a July 6,
2005 interview for KPFA�s Guns and Butter, Teeter discussed the
case and his hopes for its reopening. Sadly, Teeter died in July 2005.
- Probe Magazine offers a full archive on
every assassination of the 1960s. Probe�s editors, Jim DiEugenio and Linda
Pease, are the authors of the important The Assassinations: Probe
Magazine on JFK, Malcolm X, MLK and RFK.
- William
Turner and Jonn Christian, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(1978, 1993). One of the first, and still best, investigations that
prove that Sirhan Sirhan was a manipulated government asset.
- William
Turner, Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and other
Tails (2001). Turner�s memoirs, which include extensive chapters on
the RFK hit.
- The Robert F. Kennedy
assassination (a web site that serves as a good general overview)
RFK assassination and deep political reality
The conspiracy and cover-up of all the 1960s' assassinations
must be understood not as isolated murders, but parts of a long and seamless
continuum. To borrow the words of Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall,
authors of The Iran-Contra Connection, they are merely �the outgrowth of
a long tradition of covert US activities."
Any sober examination of any of the assassinations leads
directly to the same master list of agencies, political suspects and covert
operatives, from the Kennedy killings to the crimes of Watergate and
Iran-Contra, to the present day. The system that made the RFK murder and
cover-up possible is at its zenith today, with the openly criminal, overtly
brutal George W. Bush administration.
Anyone who has studied his history must have been disgusted
and outraged by the official ceremony in which George W. Bush named the
Justice Department building after RFK, given the fact that the Bush crime
family and its network can be directly connected to the Kennedy killings.
With due respect to Emilio Estevez and the well-meaning
producers and cast of Bobby, tomes about suffering and symptoms, no
matter how brilliant, artful or poignant, are useless if the root causes and
agents of the problem are not identified, directly faced, and courageously
eradicated. It is foolish to speak of a Bobby Kennedy legacy without the same
attention paid to those who plotted, committed and covered up his murder.
Hopefully, the continuing efforts of researchers and
investigators, and people like researcher/film maker Shane
O'Sullivan will be a part of a new wave.
In
short, there is an arduous and long-running battle for justice that must be
joined. Let it start now.