07-10-2013, 07:55 PM
SONS AND BROTHERS (which I liked a lot) described RFK's hands-on role as an interrogator/investigator/researcher during his war against the mafia and Jimmy Hoffa, down to his reading the complete work of journalists that had covered areas of interest (and grilling or hiring those journalists thereafter), having various proxies report the latest evidence, and even grabbing a shovel and digging up the body of a buried victim himself. There are a handful of anecdotes (I wish there were more) that show his interest in the killing of his brother, but the suggestion noted by Jim seems quite possible to me - yet another reason for me to like and admire RFK.
SONS AND BROTHERS pointedly shows RFK's fatalism in the final period of his life, determined to give his all as a candidate and stand up for what he believed was right in his gut and his heart, while telling others that "If they shoot, they shoot". I'm sure he had a unique perspective on the JFK killing above and beyond the fact that he was a related family member, and his role as a candidate gunning for an administration that likely concealed the architects of his brother's death - people who evidently hated RFK as much as they did JFK - meant he could either withdraw from public life, or refuse to let the scumbags that killed his brother dictate who he was and what he did. The killings of both brothers grow more upsetting and affecting the more you learn about them, but I've long been haunted by the stories and photos of the RFK funeral train taking Bobby on his final journey in public, as more than two million people - including families from poverty with both parents and children standing and saluting - lined the tracks to say their goodbye. I expect only the conspiracy theorists and researchers repeatedly attacked by the mainstream media full grasp the import of that day, what it meant, what had been lost.
In small contrast, I visited Youtube yesterday looking for a random clip of Allen Dulles (unrelated to the JFK assassination), and every comment beneath it called out Dulles for his role in Kennedy's killing, the top rated being one that expressed an urge to do something unmentionable to Dulles' grave.
I'm hoping Alex's book gets more attention than just plaudits from those already in the know. Hopefully some mainstream critics will have the balls to reflect on its contents rather than reviewing it before they've read it.
SONS AND BROTHERS pointedly shows RFK's fatalism in the final period of his life, determined to give his all as a candidate and stand up for what he believed was right in his gut and his heart, while telling others that "If they shoot, they shoot". I'm sure he had a unique perspective on the JFK killing above and beyond the fact that he was a related family member, and his role as a candidate gunning for an administration that likely concealed the architects of his brother's death - people who evidently hated RFK as much as they did JFK - meant he could either withdraw from public life, or refuse to let the scumbags that killed his brother dictate who he was and what he did. The killings of both brothers grow more upsetting and affecting the more you learn about them, but I've long been haunted by the stories and photos of the RFK funeral train taking Bobby on his final journey in public, as more than two million people - including families from poverty with both parents and children standing and saluting - lined the tracks to say their goodbye. I expect only the conspiracy theorists and researchers repeatedly attacked by the mainstream media full grasp the import of that day, what it meant, what had been lost.
In small contrast, I visited Youtube yesterday looking for a random clip of Allen Dulles (unrelated to the JFK assassination), and every comment beneath it called out Dulles for his role in Kennedy's killing, the top rated being one that expressed an urge to do something unmentionable to Dulles' grave.
I'm hoping Alex's book gets more attention than just plaudits from those already in the know. Hopefully some mainstream critics will have the balls to reflect on its contents rather than reviewing it before they've read it.