School built on site of RFK assassination

Commentary from John Judge

While put to use for a good public purpose, apparently at great cost, this structure replaces the old Ambassador Hotel, site of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Alleged assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s attorney fought for years for access to the panty, the scene of the crime, to perform ballistics and acoustics testing and searches to no avail. Luckily, one acoustic tape taken during the shooting survived and has been analyzed, providing hard proof of as many as 13 shots fired that night, far more than were in Sirhan’s 8-shot Ivers-Johnson pistol. However, acoustic tests done in Dealey Plaza gave enough proof of a shot from in front of the John F. Kennedy motorcade to convince the House Select Commitee on Assassinations to conclude a “probable conspiracy” in the assassination, and then referred the issue to the Justice Department, which continued its decades-long cover-up and obstruction of justice by failing to seriously investigate the findings. Instead, they worked to discredit them. Two other major assassination sites, in Dallas and Memphis, have been altered, preserving only the false “sniper nest” locations of the wrongly accused gunmen. The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Harlem has preserved and restored some of the area where Malcolm X was killed in 1965. None of these sites, as of last year, were accessible to COPA for our regional meetings at a reasonable price. The complete destruction of the site of RFK’s murder may be avoided in the case of JFK, MLK and Malcolm X, but the real historical information on those assassinations are not presented to the public at any of them currently.

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