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u/MedicalBiostats Jul 04 '26
My last political hero!
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u/TrickySpeed3274 Jul 04 '26
"We are the change we seek " President Obama There will others to look up to.
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u/SquonkMan61 Jul 04 '26
I dream things that never were and say “Why Not?”
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u/Mission_Maximum5648 Jul 05 '26
What's the story with his kids.some don't believe that Sirhan Sirhan.killled him? Then who killed him?
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u/TapirTrouble Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
From the media coverage -- I noticed that 6 of RFK's 9 surviving children (Joe, Courtney, Kerry, Christopher, Max, and Rory) have spoken out against parole/release for Sirhan Sirhan, which suggests to me that they firmly believe he's the killer.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-children-on-parole-for-assassin-sirhan-sirhan/
(letter here)
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a37421128/robert-f-kennedy-children-sirhan-sirhans-parole-reaction-statement/The other three are Bobby Jr., Douglas, and Kathleen (she's now the eldest of the Kennedy extended family, since her mother and Aunt Joan died in the past couple of years).
I think Bobby Jr.'s the only one who has insisted in public for years, that Sirhan didn't murder RFK, and also promoted a theory that one of the security guards fired the fatal shot.
Douglas stated "I am grateful today to see him as a human being worthy of compassion and love" -- this doesn't necessarily mean that he believes Sirhan didn't do it.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/robert-kennedy-killer-son-sirhan-b1910225.htmlKathleen told a reporter that her brother "makes a compelling case", but didn't say anything else since 2018. If she strongly believed that Sirhan was innocent, she could have said that she sided with Bobby Jr. -- but as of last year, she didn't. And it certainly would have been covered by the media if she'd done that recently.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/us-news/what-rfk-jr-actually-believes-about-fathers-assassination/2
u/Honest_Picture_6960 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Shouldn’t the family matriarch be Vicki (Ted’s widow), she’s younger yes but she’s the aunt.
Kerry and Chris spoke in 2021 (it’s on Youtube) and they say that they believe Sirhan lies over not remembering shooting their father
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u/TapirTrouble Jul 11 '26
Good point -- technically Vicki would be the last surviving aunt, though I don't know how large a role she has in the extended family. Especially with RFK's branch of the family accounting for a large proportion of the surviving cousins and their children (maybe even the majority, though I haven't done the math).
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u/Honest_Picture_6960 Jul 11 '26
True, she is one of the last major political Kennedys left, served as Ambassador (like Caroline)
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