Re: RFK Assassination

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

@Isobel Archer You have a huge advantage over me. I am kind of leary of historical judgements anyway without actually knowing the mores of the time period and for that you need to be there. I think a lot of things get judged on current and social ideals like it is the one and only perspective to have and I feel that's extremely unfair.

Definitely interesting to see if they can figure it all out!

gizmogal · ‎05-09-2014

@Laura14 wrote:
Another issue is grabbing mass attention. No innocent person should ever sit in jail but I don't think there are a huge number of people around today who actually remember and know what this incident was all about except history buffs. There is no huge public interest only because I think it was before most of us were even a thought or even out of elementary school.

Speak for yourself! Please don’t write off the biggest generation ever born, the Baby Boomers, as if they weren’t still around and weren’t old enough (or too old) to remember both the assassinations of JFK and RFK. Yes, lots of you weren’t born or were very young at the time of RFK’s murder, but millions of us were old enough to be aware and care and we do remember.

There is no huge public interest more likely because most people accept this as a settled case, well-proven, and new evidence is presented in one book more as alternative possibility than compelling facts needing urgent light of day examination.

There’s still a whole lot of public who witnessed this event and the trial. Just not a lot of interest in a do-over.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@Laura14 I'm 70 and a LOT and I mean a LOT of us remember this assassination very well. Many in their 60's remember it also.

Sushismom · ‎03-09-2010

RFK, Jr. also believes vaccines cause autism. So I take everything he says with a HUGE grain of salt.

Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@Laura14 I'm 70 and a LOT and I mean a LOT of us remember this assassination very well. Many in their 60's remember it also.

Definitely. I graduated high school that year. Also the year MLK was assassinated. Tough times.

Laura14 · ‎06-09-2014

@Love my grandkids and @gizmogal Relax. I was only pointing out the legitimate fact that the age of most Twitter users who seem to run our planet now is not an age where this topic would ever trend and gain some traction into the public landscape as a whole. Maybe I am wrong but OJ and Roseanne it isn't.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

I think that Skakel guy is a guilty as sin. I don't recall enough about Sirhan to have an opinion

Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

Now this is bizarre. According to the Washington Post, the autopsy report shows RFK being shot at point blank range from behind - Sirhan was facing him and at a distance.

So if that is true, how did they ever convict him?