WI RFK conspiracy theories accepted as fact?

As per the JFK thread. There aren't that many, because this one had witnesses who saw the entire thing from beginning to end from within 10 feet. Not much room for disputing the facts. For that reason those who believe in a conspiracy are far fewer than those who dispute the fact of his brother's assassination. Forgetting of course that the loon himself believes in a conspiracy, but that's because he's batshit insane.
 
You mean a conspiracy involving Al Fatah sending Sirhan Sirhan to kill a Presidential candidate? Say goodbye to any prospect of a Palestinian State ever.
 
My favorite one is that the CIA brainwashed Sirhan to do it, to prevent Bobby winning the Presidency and reopening the JFK case.
 
That's the rub: people often think that RFK was some sort of martyr for Israel. Unfortunately, the facts get in the way of that sort of kumbaya feeling. All the presidential candidates were pro-Israel, certainly more so Hubert Humphrey and Nelson Rockefeller. There's a backstory to his donning that skullcap in Oregon that's too long and somewhat irrelevant to the OP to discuss at length. Needless to say that his attitude often drifted closer to George H.W. Bush's than Dubya's: negotiations and the '67 borders not being permanent. That's just the public stuff, BTW. Not to say that he wasn't pro-Israel: but no more than the average US politician of similar rank and stature, if anything a bit less.

Needless to say Sirhan did not have support: all the Arab countries condemned it, his own father said he should be hanged for it (thank SCOCA for striking down the death penalty in '70- Reagan never modified the method from electric chair to lethal injection for some reason), and the UN flew its flags at half-mast for a mere presidential candidate. It was an act by a lone loon who wanted to be famous by killing a celebrity. Sui generis.

As for the act itself: there's really no dispute. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to shoot an unarmed civilian in a dimly lit, confined space from within 10 feet. Even then, had he not stabilized his elbow on the cart it would've gone wild and missed. Hell, even IOTL 1/2 inch further back (which means that the bullet doesn't shatter along with bone fragments into the brain, but hits the hardest part of the skull- inpenetrable by a .22 peashooter- in the back) would just mean 3 weeks recovery time before hitting the trail again.
 
My favorite one is that the CIA brainwashed Sirhan to do it, to prevent Bobby winning the Presidency and reopening the JFK case.

Given how close he was to the CIA... sheesh. There is a grain of truth in that he thought the Warren Commission flawed, but he never read the Warren Report in his life, nor ever made any references to it, even among his closest intimates, beyond "the events of 11/22/63", not even "Dallas". But generally because of the number and location of witnesses, most disputes are to whether Sirhan acted alone or not. No one except the utmost loons believe someone else fired the shots.
 
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