RFK's Investigation of JFK Assassination Led to Anti-Castro Cubans -- JFK: Destiny Betrayed

RFK's Investigation of JFK Assassination Led to Anti-Castro Cubans; Timestamped Summary - Excerpt from "JFK: Destiny Betrayed":

- 00:00:01 - After President Kennedy's murder, Attorney General Robert Kennedy immediately began investigating a domestic conspiracy without hesitation.

- 00:00:12 - RFK's first phone call was to the CIA's desk officer at Langley, asking directly: "Did your people conduct this horror?"

- 00:00:27 - On November 22, 1963, Bobby operated from his home in McLean, Virginia, and immediately suspected there was not a lone gunman.

- 00:00:40 - Kennedy's closest aides Kenny O'Donnell and Dave Powers were in the limousine directly behind the President's car and were both World War II veterans who knew what gunfire sounded like.

- 00:00:58 - O'Donnell and Powers reported to RFK that gunfire had not just come from the rear but from different sides, including from the front - it was a crossfire situation.

- 01:09 - RFK Jr. recalls being in the East Room with his father, Jackie Kennedy, and siblings when Lyndon Johnson entered to deliver news.

- 01:17 - LBJ told the adults in the room that Lee Harvey Oswald had been killed and that "a man had shot him."

- 01:27 - Young RFK Jr. innocently asked his parents: "Why did he shoot him? Did he love our family?"

- 01:35 - Nobody answered the question, and the adults' reaction made clear this only compounded the tragedy - it was not a good thing that Oswald had been silenced.

- 01:52 - RFK Jr. immediately questioned why a man would shoot Oswald in public in a place where he knew he would get caught, sacrificing his own life.

- 02:07 - Within a couple of years, it became clear to everyone that Jack Ruby "did not love our family. He was a mobster."

- 02:16 - When Bobby Kennedy examined the phone logs of who Jack Ruby was talking to before entering the Dallas police station basement, he made a stunning observation.

- 02:26 - RFK said Ruby's phone records "read like the witness list of the Senate Rackets Committee" - in other words, all mob guys.

- 02:33 - At that time, Robert Kennedy was not aware of the deep level of involvement between the CIA and the Mafia, that they were essentially "a seamless organization."

- 02:42 - In 1961, the FBI had discovered secret CIA-Mafia plots to assassinate Castro, and when Attorney General Kennedy was told, he requested a full briefing from the CIA.

- 02:55 - The CIA admitted to the assassination plots but claimed they had stopped - this was a lie, as the operations were still ongoing, run by CIA officer William Harvey and Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli.

- 03:09 - RFK suspected three parties in his brother's assassination: the CIA, the Mafia, and anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

- 03:18 - Bobby Kennedy called Harry Ruiz Williams, who was involved with the Cuban Exile Committee, and said bluntly: "One of your guys did it."

- 03:32 - When RFK left the Justice Department after his brother's death, he lost virtually all investigative capacity - the department had 30,000 employees, half of whom were FBI personnel.

- 03:49 - The FBI employees nominally worked for the Attorney General but in reality worked for J. Edgar Hoover, making independent investigation impossible.

- 03:59 - RFK was shattered for the first year after the assassination and told aide Nick Katzenbach: "I'm not going to testify before the Warren Commission. I'm not going to have anything to do with it."

- 04:20 - Privately, RFK would say the Warren Commission "did a shoddy job," but publicly he would never comment on it.

- 04:29 - Kennedy understood that commissions in America have a tradition of "anointing orthodoxies" and that any investigation under LBJ's White House and the FBI would be bogus.

- 04:50 - Multiple close RFK aides - including Dick Goodwin, Frank Mankowitz, and Adam Wilensky - confirmed that Bobby Kennedy did not believe the Warren Commission findings.

- 05:03 - RFK viewed the Warren Report as "a fairy tale, the convenient cover up" and was determined to bring a new official inquiry into his brother's murder.

- 05:11 - Robert Kennedy planned to get the truth and conduct a proper investigation as soon as he was back in the White House.
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Original Source Attribution:

JFK: Destiny Betrayed (2021) | Oliver Stone & James DiEugenio | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msk3TbgNPQ4

Filmmaker Oliver Stone revisits material used in the making of the film JFK along with additional material that has come to light since. Scriptwriting by James DiEugenio.
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