Kennedys make rare visit to Dallas, say RFK questioned ‘lone gunman’ theory in JFK assassination

Kennedys make rare visit to Dallas, say RFK questioned ‘lone gunman’
theory in JFK assassination

By DAVID FLICK, Staff Writer
Dallas Morning News
12 January 2013
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A rare public appearance in Dallas this weekend by relatives of
President John F. Kennedy was filled with political discussion and
personal reminiscences, with only occasional attention to the tragedy
that has linked the family and city for 50 years.

In a round-table discussion Friday night in the Dallas Arts District,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of the president’s brother and attorney
general, said his father publicly supported the official Warren
Commission conclusion that the president was killed in Dealey Plaza by a lone gunman.

“In private, he was dismissive of it,” he said. “My father believed the Warren report was a shoddy piece of craftsmanship.”…

Robert Kennedy Jr. said his father was concerned enough about the
accuracy of the Warren report that he asked Justice Department
investigators to informally look into allegations that the accused
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had received aid from the Mafia, the CIA or other organizations.

He said the staff members found phone lists linking Jack Ruby, Oswald’s assassin, to organized crime figures with ties to the CIA, convincing the elder Kennedy that there was something to the allegations…

The president’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, spent much of the five years after his 1963 assassination outside the United States because she was shocked at the level of violence here.

The attorney general read books extensively during that period, his
children said.

“He read the Greeks,” Robert Kennedy Jr. said. “He read the Catholic
scholars, and he read the poets, Emerson and Keats, trying to figure out why a just God would allow injustice of this magnitude.”