“An explosive new book by David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years … Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Yearsreveals that Robert Kennedy, who was Attorney General during his brother’s presidency, believed that JFK was killed by an insider conspiracy of powerful players who didn’t like some of the president’s actions. ”

DT: Well, you know, the assassination of JFK is a dark labyrinth. It’s possibly the darkest labyrinth in my lifetime, the biggest mystery. Many books have been written about it and I didn’t want to go down that same tunnel. But I wanted to follow Bobby’s footsteps, because Bobby Kennedy was the Attorney General of the United States and one of the most aggressive investigators in American public life in his day. And he was utterly devoted to his older brother, President Kennedy. So I wanted to know what he really thought.

I thought doing that would shed light on this case. And the truth is, starting from the afternoon of that terrible day in Dallas; Bobby Kennedy believed that his brother’s assassination was a conspiracy. He looked immediately at the CIA and its secret war on Castro as the source of the plot.
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