The Strange Death of Liberal Lowenstein

[Peter Lemkin]

Never underestimate how complex and how many wheels within wheels there can be in such things. Think of the Cubans, for example, 'used' by the CIA in anti-Castro to Dallas things. Some played both sides and at times were and at other times not trusted by some in the Agency. Most were used and never formally connected to the Agency. Others were. I don't believe the Agency as an Agency was involved in either. Some who were connected were invovled in both. As were persons outside the Agency they worked with.

Whatever else he may have been before, I do believe his attempts to re-open an investigation of RFKs assassination were real - not a way to bury it further. While many of us now feel the CIA [or some connected to it would be more accurate] were, in part, involved in both Kennedy assassinations, there are factions and those involved may have been [or felt] they were doing those 'jobs' wearing different 'hats' - and not wearing that of the Agency. The Agency worked full-time to cover the truth up, for sure - as well as any connection to anyone involved. The certainly didn't work to solve the crimes!

"In 1974, former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein began taking an interest in the case after talking to several social and political friends about the mysteries of the Robert Kennedy assassination. One celebrity was TV star Robert Vaughn, who had become somewhat of a cause celebrite for those wanting answers. Lowenstein, along with Paul Schrade, Kennedy’s aide who had been wounded in the shooting spree and who had since filed a civil lawsuit for personal injuries, hosted a press conference demanding the case be reopened. They submitted a list of questions to the LAPD – among them, asking for more information about the missing doorframe.

They never received an answer, but as a result of Schrade and Lowenstein’s media-reawakening efforts, photos surfaced from LAPD files that had been snapped during the initial crime area investigation. Two of the pictures are close-ups of the door jamb showing two holes, circled in chalk. Another shows Coroner Thomas Noguchi pointing to the holes. And in a fourth photo he is measuring the distance between them."
From http://www.geocities.com/verisimus101/rf...ermath.htm

From a piece by Paul Schrade: "I began to understand what became known as the second gun theory when Congressman Allard Lowenstein from New York visited our home in 1974. He explained that serious questions existed about the incomplete police investigation, their errors and destruction of crucial evidence.

Allard took us to visit our neighbor, Lillian Castellano and her friend, Floyd Nelson. They had discovered signs of extra bullets in the hotel pantry - more than Sirhan could have shot - and had taken photographs the next day. FBI Agent William Bailey inspected the scene within hours of the shooting and discovered bullet holes in the doorjamb behind us. That doorjamb was removed and destroyed by the Police soon after, among other evidence.

I became convinced to join their investigations and worked with Allard Lowenstein, his research scholar Greg Stone, Dr. Joling and Dr. Philip Melanson whose book Shadow Play with William Klaber is definitive to 1997. It is sad these three friends are no longer alive to admire and build on the work of Van Praag and Joling."

What was Lowenstein mostly doing from '74 until his death? He seems to have kept his interest in the RFK killing until the end. It could well be why he was 'bumped'.