Posts Tagged with "Assassinations"

A few words about RFK

Monday, June 5, 2006

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Today is the 38th anniversary of the day Bobby Kennedy got shot–no, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, Slate reminded me. I thought I’d take a short break from revising Sophomore to share some thoughts. I come by my Kennedy assassination fetish honestly: My mother was raised Catholic, and my seldom-seen father died when I [...]

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Lots of interesting stuff today…

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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Just finished watching “RFK,” a PBS documentary…

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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…on PBS, and I’m a little raw, since that story always upsets me a great deal. But I thought since I had a blog I’d write to you how the show made me feel. I was born in 1969, almost one year exactly after Robert Kennedy was shot dead while campaigning for President, and I [...]

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