RFK Jr. pushes conspiracy principle that CIA was concerned in uncle's assassination

Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, pushed a conspiracy principle on Monday suggesting the CIA performed a task within the assassination of his uncle.

Kennedy Jr. claimed there was "overwhelming proof" that the CIA was concerned within the assassination and a virtually 60-year cover-up regardless of the company's repeated denial of enjoying any function.

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"There are thousands and thousands of pages of CIA paperwork, of transcripts and recorded conversations with the Cuban Embassy and Mexico Metropolis," Kennedy Jr. instructed Fox News host Sean Hannity. "To summarize the proof, there are confessions from individuals instantly concerned within the plot, within the planning of the plot, who had been peripheral to the plot, and there was a 60-year cover-up."

The federal government's conclusion acknowledged that convicted shooter Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone within the 1963 homicide. It additionally decided there was no credible proof he was a part of a conspiracy to assassinate the president, in line with the Warren Commissions report launched on Sept. 24, 1964.

However Kennedy Jr. famous that a 1979 Home committee investigated the killing and located that based mostly on scientific proof, it was possible that there have been a minimum of two individuals who shot on the president. The committee additionally outlined that it was doubtless a part of a conspiracy. Finally, the committee didn't discover a second shooter or further suspects.

“There's overwhelming proof that the CIA was concerned in his homicide,” Kennedy Jr. mentioned. “I believe it’s past an inexpensive doubt at this level.”

The one particular person named within the 1963 homicide was convicted shooter Lee Harvey Oswald. John McCone, the CIA director on the time, testified that Oswald was by no means a part of the CIA and that the company by no means had contact with him. The Home committee confirmed McCone's testimony.

Kennedy Jr. mirrored on the day of his uncle's demise and claimed the very first thing his father did when he heard the information was name the CIA to seek out out in the event that they had been accountable.

"My father referred to as the CIA desk officer and requested him, 'Did you do that?'" Kennedy Jr. mentioned. "The second name was to one of many Bay of Pig leaders that was nonetheless shut mates of the household, and he requested him the identical query. ... It was my father's first intuition to ask if the CIA had killed his brother."

Kennedy Jr., who's making an attempt to observe in his uncle's footsteps, introduced his bid for the presidency final month. He's one among three declared Democratic hopefuls, together with President Joe Biden. The opposite is writer and activist Marianne Williamson.