May 6, 2010
Henry,Another in a long line of convenient inept 'terrorists' that can't seem to pull off even simple routine car bombing anymore. No, I don't buy it. It's just another frameup of the 'usual suspects'.
Does anybody remember the Robert Kennedy assassination in 1968? I do. Kennedy was running for President against the man who was instrumental in enabling the murder of President John Kennedy in 1963. Robert Kennedy announced late in election and by August he was clearly winning the primaries.
On the eve of winning the crucial California primary he was fatally shot while moving through a crowd in the basement of the Los Angeles hotel after making his victory speech.
Watch how CBS news introduced the news to the public at the time. First describing the alleged assassin as a 'a swarthy young man about 25, dark complected with wiry or 'bushy' hair', and 'foreigner', then giving his full name and saying he was Jordanian and 'not born in this country'. Not mentioned were that Sirhan was a naturalized US citizen who had grown up in Los Angeles with his immigrant parents, or that they were Christians. As the story was developed the rest of the week media often 'mispoke' calling him a "Palestinian fanatic" and assigned the motive to Sirhan of shooting Kennedy for the latter's promise to support Israel militarily. (Summer of '68 had just witnessed the Six Day War, so that was a hot topic).
However Sirhan has always asserted that he had no memory of shooting Kennedy, and held no malice toward him, and wished he wasn't dead.
1968 CBS news footage on Sirhan Sirhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Henry Makow is the author of A Long Way to go for a Date. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He welcomes your feedback and ideas at
