2024: RFK Jr.'s Deep Political Gambit
“Until we can get to the bottom of the Kennedy assassination, this country is going to remain a sick country. No matter what we do. Because we cannot live with that crime. We just can’t. The threat is too great. There are forces in this country who have gotten away with this thing, and will strike again. And not any one of us is safe.” —Maggie Field, to the Los Angeles Free Press, December 1967.1
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. filed papers with the Federal Election Commission April 5, 2023, to enter the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries. He will officially announce his candidacy April 19th in Boston. It is a unique and historic moment in U.S. politics. You will not hear the corrupt mass media characterize it that way. That would require speaking what is for them the unspeakable: since the murders of Kennedy’s uncle and father, our defacto government has been an assassinocracy.
The assassinocracy is what created the lies voters believe. It is what has prevented candidates from addressing the deep political issues of our time. The takeover was secured with the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the last political leaders who directly addressed them. The assassinocracy is the thing to understand, and the thing to stop if you want a legitimate election. As John Judge taught us, we won’t have a democracy until we resolve the Kennedy assassination.2
In another essay on the assassinocracy, I raised the question, “How does one become a post-RFK president?” Hillary Clinton used a failed “infiltrator” strategy in 2016. In response to Clinton’s loss, RFK, in 2018, floated a second strategy in his book, American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family. One that had not been tried openly by a major candidate. By accusing the CIA of killing his father and uncle, Robert Kennedy, Jr., made this “Track II” a direct attack on the assassinocracy.3
No one has ever run for president on a platform of openly accusing the CIA of killing President Kennedy and his brother Robert, certainly not a Kennedy. Now Bobby’s son is running for president. It is the first time a known enemy of the conspiracy has done this since his father ran in 1968.
On March 25th of that year, Bobby Kennedy spoke to a crowd of students at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California. When the inevitable question came, Kennedy told them he had seen everything in the archived JFK assassination files, and they would be opened “at the appropriate time” — meaning, “when Bobby became president.”4
“The following month, Kennedy again spoke revealingly about his future investigation plans, this time with a small group of campaign aides in his room at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel. It was late in the evening on April 19, and Kennedy had just returned from a raucous appearance at the University of San Francisco, where a small group of antiwar radicals had charged at him, trying to hit him as he got out of his limousine. When he tried to deliver his speech, they shouted him down, screaming “Victory for the Viet Cong” and calling him a “fascist pig.” Decompressing in his hotel room later, Kennedy was in a particularly voluble mood, wanting to talk about the chaotic state of the nation and his plans to restore the country’s sanity if he reached the White House. Emboldened by Kennedy’s expansive mood, one of his aides mustered the courage to ask him about his brother’s assassination. Richard Lubic, a campaign media consultant who was in the room, later made notes on what Kennedy replied: ‘Subject to me getting elected, I would like to reopen the Warren Commission.’”5
We know RFK, Jr., knows the risk more than anyone.6 He is running anyway. Is he simply fighting for a Capraesque lost cause, or battling a quixotic impossible dream? More likely, he has learned a lesson his father and uncles did not. One none of his elected family members have learned, nor his extended political family (the Clintons, Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, et al.). It is a lesson that has been hiding in plain sight. That makes him worth watching — closely. There are strategic lessons for us all in analyzing what happens.
That lesson was passed early-on from first-generation assassination researcher Raymond Marcus to Bobby Kennedy, through his press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz.
All along Marcus had been contacting influential public figures and trying to interest them in the Kennedy case. In late May 1967, nearly two years after first writing Robert F. Kennedy, he tried contacting him again to urge him to contact Jim Garrison and see for himself whether the district attorney was on to something important.
He succeeded in reaching RFK’s press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz, who remembered the packet of material Marcus had earlier sent. “Our minds are open on the case,” Mankiewicz told him, and invited Marcus to meet with him in Senator Kennedy’s Washington office. The senator would not be there himself, but Mankiewicz assured Marcus he would bring his views, and his appraisal of those views, to RFK’s attention. …
When the meeting ended, Mankiewicz invited Marcus to come to his home to show his material to another Kennedy aide, Adam Walinsky. … Afterward Mankiewicz and Walinsky drove Marcus to National Airport. Along the way, Marcus observed that if Senator Kennedy entertained any doubts about the Warren Report, it was important that he go public with them. Walinsky replied, “What good will it do the country for Robert Kennedy to stand up and say, ‘I don't believe the Warren Report’?”
Just over a year later Marcus was watching televised coverage of RFK’s victory in the California presidential primary when Senator Kennedy was assassinated. “Walinsky’s words flashed through my mind,” Marcus recalled, “followed immediately by the thought that he might not have been shot.”7
The conspirators8 have long been desperate and afraid. Their Gordian knot is unraveling. They have never had to deal with a candidate, nor a Kennedy, who knew the facts of the conspiracy and managed to “go public with them.” They have resorted to assassinating his character. The mass media reports of RFK, Jr.’s candidacy have never failed to call him an “anti-vaxxer” — a desperate lie.
Robert Kennedy, an attorney, author and environmental activist, said in a statement: “I am not anti-vaccine. I want safe vaccines with robust safety testing.” He is chairman of the board of Children’s Health Defense. Its website ties the increase in chronic childhood conditions such as asthma, autism and diabetes to a range of factors, including environmental toxins, pesticides and vaccines.9
The corrupt media attacks naturally included their old CIA smear tactic, the Thought-terminating Cliché, “conspiracy theorist.” As I wrote, “The use of the term ‘conspiracy theorist’ as vilification, as a smear, as character assassination is now ubiquitous. Therein lies the most dangerous, Machiavellian propaganda of our time.”10
That is expected from corrupt news media. RFK, Jr., is not just a Kennedy running for president. He is the son and nephew of two of the country’s most important assassinated leaders. The forces behind the conspiracy that killed JFK, MLK, and RFK still exist, and they attack what they fear most. That fear can be also used against them. RFK, Jr., is the first major candidate to try. Can he succeed?
RFK assassination researcher and author Lisa Pease gave this personal impression of RFK, Jr., in her 2018 book, A Lie Too Big to Fail:
Of all the members of the Kennedy family, Bobby has long been the truest heir to the legacy of his father and his uncle John. Bobby is an attorney, an environmental activist, and the co-founder and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. I was impressed with Bobby before I met him. But I was even more impressed after discussing the case with him and seeing how quickly his mind worked, how easily he grasped concepts that others had shown trouble understanding. In turn, he taught me about some legal aspects of this case, as well as how to make perfect corn on the cob! I will be forever grateful to our mutual friend, author David Talbot, for connecting us.11
There is one more thing I wish to note at this opening stage of the 2024 presidential campaign. You may have already caught it if you were reading carefully. When candidates hold a campaign event, they often choose the date and place for their personal, political, or historical symbolism. That is most certainly the case when launching a campaign for president. Choosing Boston as the place is no surprise for a Kennedy.
But why launch on April 19th, on a Wednesday? After all, it is on or near some of the most horrific, impolitical anniversaries: the Boston Marathon bombing, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster, the Columbine High School massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, the conflagration of the Waco Branch Davidian compound, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the start of the Spanish-American War, Adolf Hitler’s birth. Those would seem to negatively eclipse even the shared anniversaries of more heroic struggles: the American Revolution and Siege of Boston, the Battle of San Jacinto, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the Apollo 16 moon landing.
What then would make April 19th so politically significant to the son and nephew of America’s conspiratorially martered leaders — a crime that has been aided and abetted to this day, and for which justice continues to be obstructed? As quoted above, it is the date in 1968 that presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy made clear, with presidential powers, “I would like to reopen the Warren Commission.”
ENDNOTES:
John Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2007, p. 464.
Richard Bartholomew, “2020: The Deep Political Realities,” Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 001, Jan.-Feb. 2019, pp. 12-18. bartholoviews.substack.com
Richard Bartholomew, “2020: High crimes, Deep Politics,” Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 005, Aug. 2020, pp. 10-16. bartholoviews.substack.com
David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. New York, NY, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 358.
Ibid, pp. 358-359
Interviewed by Aubrey Marcus on April 15, 2023, RFK, Jr. addressed the risk of opposing the assassinocracy directly.
Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation, op. cit., p. 452.
Richard Bartholomew, “The Real Conspiracy Nuts,” Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 004, Jan. 2020, pp. 8-14.) bartholoviews.substack.com
Roni Caryn Rabin, “Family of Robert F Kennedy Jr criticise his ‘dangerous’ stance on vaccines,” The Irish Times, May 9, 2019. Accessed April 18, 2023. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/family-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr-criticise-his-dangerous-stance-on-vaccines-1.3886209
“The Real Conspiracy Nuts,” op. cit.
Lisa Pease, A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Port Townsend, WA, 2018, p. x.