What RFK Jr. actually believes about his fathers assassination and how its torn the Kennedy family apart
Robert Kennedy Jr.has long maintained that Sirhan Sirhan, who has spent nearly 60 years in prison for killing his father, is innocent of the crime — and that a second gunman was involved in the assassination of Sen.
Robert Kennedy in 1968.That belief has fueled division between him and the majority of his siblings as well as their mother, Ethel, when she was alive.
And it’s sure to heat up again as Sirhan, 81, could be eligible for parole again next year.“I believe Cesar killed my father,” Kennedy Jr.wrote in a 2021 San Francisco Chronicle op-ed of security guard Thane Eugene Cesar, who died in 2019 and was never charged.
“Sirhan,” Kennedy Jr.wrote, “is not my father’s killer.”It was revealed Wednesday that Kennedy Jr., the current US Health and Human Services Secretary, sent a letter to then US Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012 requesting a new investigation into his father’s death and the two-gunman theory.
The letter to Holder, who served under Barack Obama, came to light in documents on the assassination declassified by the Trump administration.When Kennedy Jr., 71, recommended to the California Board of Parole Hearings that Sirhan be given parole in 2021 — the 16th time he faced the board — six of his siblings, led by their mother, Ethel, slammed the move.“Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man,” said Ethel in a Sept.
7, 2021, post on her daughter Kerry Kennedy’s X account — adding: “He should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.”Ethel passed away Oct.10, 2024, at age 96.Her children Joe, Courtney, Kerry, Chris, Max and Rory have opposed Sirhan’s parole.
Son Douglas, like Kennedy Jr., is in favor.Daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend told the Washington Post in 2018 that Kennedy Jr.
“makes a compelling case” about Sirhan not acting alone, but has not commented on the matter since.Kennedy Jr.’s 2012 letter to Holder included a three-page “Summary of Ev...