Who REALLY Killed RFK? Part 1 (With Journalist Craig Colgan)

“Tuesday night, I was in ecstasy with joy,” a young man — his name lost to history — who’d been at RFK’s Los Angeles victory party told an ABC TV special on June 6, 1968. “Wednesday morning, sorrow. And this morning, utter despair — because now I’m lost, I’m desperate, and I don’t know where we’re going from here.”

This month marks 56 years since the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on the presidential campaign trail in Los Angeles.

Throughout June, I’ll be premiering new episodes in my ongoing investigative series “Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?” — exploring the case evidence, witness testimony, and the repeated confessions of RFK’s convicted assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

Tonight my guest is Craig Colgan, an award-winning journalist who has studied and written about the RFK assassination for 25 years. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The Washington Examiner, Quillette, National Journal, The Miami Herald, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Charlotte Observer, The Columbia State, among many other respected publications. His reporting is referenced in two books of note: Thurston Clarke’s The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America, and in Freedom Riders, by Raymond Arsenault.

In Part 1 of our conversation we discuss events leading up to the murder of Senator Kennedy, and Sirhan’s plans — detailed at length in his notebooks — to murder pro-Israel politicians, premeditated a year before the murder of RFK. His targets included U.N. Ambassador Goldberg, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and President Lyndon Johnson.

Craig explains why Sirhan ultimately chose Sen. Kennedy as his target, describes his motives for the murder, and addresses questions about a possible second gunman — a security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar.

2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says he believes that Gene Cesar was the one who actually shot and killed his father, not Sirhan.

@RobertKennedyJr tried to arrange an on-camera interview with the security guard he believes murdered his father — Thane Eugene Cesar — in 2018.

This thread reveals the inside story of those negotiations, and why the meeting ultimately didn’t happen. 🧵

(Cesar photo, 2018) pic.twitter.com/S5EhN6bR99

— Lori Spencer (@RealLoriSpencer) June 19, 2024

Don’t miss Part 1 of this incredible conversation tonight at 9 PM Eastern.

It will change everything you think you know about the RFK assassination.

Part 2 closes out the month next Sunday night, June 30th.

Check out all episodes of the “Who Killed Bobby Kennedy” podcast series in this playlist.

DISCLOSURE: I am a volunteer on the RFK Jr. presidential campaign. Join the RFK Army and help us reclaim what Sirhan took from us in 1968 here.

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“Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?” New Episode Premieres Tonight

56 years ago this week, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on the campaign trail in Los Angeles, just after winning the California Democratic presidential primary.

The latest episode in my ongoing series “Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?” explores the murder trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and evidence possibly pointing to a second gun.

In April 1969, a jury found Sirhan guilty of first degree murder for the assassination of RFK, and attempted murder of five other innocent bystanders wounded by his barrage of bullets at the Ambassador Hotel.

The seven men and five women, who deliberated 16 hours and 42 minutes before reaching their verdict, found the young Palestinian was mentally capable of mature premeditation before shooting down the senator on June 5, 1968.

At trial, Sirhan confessed to the crime, saying “I killed Robert Kennedy with 20 years of malice aforethought,” a reference to the suffering of his family during the 1948 Israeli/Arab war. Sirhan explained that he targeted Sen. #Kennedy because of his support for #Zionist #Israel.

As the verdict was announced Sirhan, who had been nervously chewing at his fingers, stared straight ahead and showed no emotion.

After a one-day recess, the same jurors heard arguments as to whether Sirhan’s fate should be life in prison or a sentence to the gas chamber at San Quentin. The penalty phase lasted only a few days in contrast to the 15-week trial.

The prosecution did not seek the death penalty but told the jurors either sentence would be just. The jury’s ultimate unanimous verdict was death in the gas chamber for #Sirhan. (The sentence was commuted to life in prison a few years later when California abolished the death penalty.)

As part of my ongoing investigative series “Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?” marking the 55th anniversary of Sirhan’s trial, I recently spoke to #JFK/RFK assassination historian James DiEugenio about the evidence in the case, which Jim believes points to a #conspiracy.

In this episode — “A Second Gun?” –DiEugenio argues that it was impossible for Sirhan’s bullets to have hit and killed Senator Kennedy, and says that RFK’s real killer (a security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar) escaped justice.

Jim DiEugenio is editor in chief at KennedysAndKing.com, author of numerous books on the assassinations of the 1960s,and wrote the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s “JFK Revisited” documentary series.

Catch the premiere tonight at 9 PM Eastern.