Robert Kennedy
Former Secret Service Agent Recalls the Day JFK Was Shot 50 Years Ago
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Clint Hill remembers running toward the back of the limousine where President John F. Kennedy was just shot. Hill was a Secret Service agent who was in the motorcade surrounding the president and first lady on Nov. 22, 1963. “I think about it every day,” Hill told a crowd Tuesday night at…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Dream’ Speech Prompted FBI to Launch Spying Campaign
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech inspired African Americans in 1963, the FBI was worrying aloud whether the civil rights leader was gaining too much influence and popularity, Bloomberg reports. Two months after the speech, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved a campaign to spy on King in an…
2nd shooter in Bobby Kennedy Assassination? Witness Swears YES
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Robert F. Kennedy was shot dead in an L.A. hotel in 1968, just moments after winning California’s Democratic primary election. The facts beyond that may be in the air if “new” evidence of a second shooter is allowed in court for the first time, 44 years later. The convicted lone gunman Sirhan…
Justice Dept. Honors Robert Kennedy’s 50th Anniversary of Swearing in as Atty. Gen.
doj photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On Friday, the Justice Department took pause to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s Swearing-in as Attorney General in a building named after him. With Kennedy’s widow Ethel and daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in attendance, along with some other notables, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr….
FBI Says Millionaire Supposedly Had Info on Sex Parties and Mentioned Kennedys, Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old multi-millionaire who had once been married to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, reportedly had “considerable information” about sex parties at a New York Hotel involving the Kennedys and some famous entertainers, according to a 1965 FBI file released Monday. The July 1965 FBI file, part of a ream of…
Courtney Evans — FBI Liaison to Hoover and the Kennedys — Dies at Age 95
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A historic link to the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover and JFK and Robert Kennedy is gone. Courtney A. Evans, 95, a high ranking FBI official who was a liaison between Hoover and the Kennedy’s, died last month of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Naples, Fla., the Washington Post reported….
Weekend Series on History: Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy vs. Jimmy Hoffa
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