I've always been fascinated by Robert and John Kennedy, their lives and their deaths. There have been a number of conspiracy theories advanced over the years. A new book gives much to chew on...
"Bobby Kennedy died believing his brother's killers had not been found"
A review of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, By David Talbot, Simon & Schuster,478 pages. When President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas in November 1963, his younger brother Robert, then the U.S. attorney general, was having lunch at his home in northern Virginia. As recounted in Brothers, David Talbot’s stirring and troubling history of Bobby’s descent into the underworlds of conspiracy, word of the shooting reached him when J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, telephoned. In a monotone, Bobby’s nemesis and wily subordinate said: “I have news for you. The president’s been shot.” Hoover had long resented the intrusions of the [...]
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