>>I don't think we will ever know much more for sure but I am reasonably certain there are (or were) people in the Kennedy family who knew much more than they shared and people in the intelligence community who had some very well founded suspicions which they occasionally shared with interested young hangers-on.
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>I really love the haunting possibilities, but for me the killing of Bobby tends to act as Occam's razor:
>if that much sinister play behind the scenes was going on in Dallas,
>I'd never expect someone like Shirhan to succeed - I would expect a dead Shirhan,
>as Bobby then would not believe even perhaps honestly meant "JFK was enough for us"
>sentiments if such were uttered, but would have keept his guard better up,
>pairing people from different sources to check on his safety and each other.

The RFK killing was the most confusing to me. I was personally emotionally devastated. It was my first (and last) serious involvement in a Presidential campaign ( as a lowest level foot soldier for Bobby in Ohio the spring of my senior year in college - highlight of the year being meeting him in Columbus a month before he was killed) I've since read pretty much everything on it, but don't know how to make sense of it other than the behavior of the LA PD and of Sirhan are troubling. I do believe Bobby was fatalistic about it all, but those around him were concerned every minute of ever day. How it broke down in LA completely escapes me. I do know that it profoundly effected my balance of cynicism vs dewy eyed idealism and that shortly afterward some opportunities suggested by a professor to "do something that matters" became much more attractive, subsequently changing the course of my life.