The September 15 assassination scare of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a campaign event in Los Angeles, bears eerie resemblance to the assassination of Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel, less than two miles away.
Some of the facts are out, but many are not, with corporate media either indifferent, slanted, or both. Colleagues of mine at The Kennedy Beacon have launched a thorough investigation and will publish their findings in coming days.
This much we know for sure: a security officer detained a man before the police eventually arrested him. Kennedy described the scene in an Instagram post:
The man, wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines was carrying a U.S. Marshal badge on a lanyard and beltclip federal ID. He identified himself as a member of my security detail. Armed GDBA team members moved quickly to isolate and detain the man until LAPD arrived to make the arrest
Predictably, the corporate media coverage of the story has been terrible. A Google search of the man’s name, “Adrian Paul Aispuro,” returns a number of news items. At the top of the list is an egregious piece of yellow journalism from Daily Beast “Senior Researcher,” Wiliam Bredderman. It would be hard to imagine a more irresponsible example of “journalism” than Bredderman’s.. The headline reads, “Anti-Vaxxer Held on $35K Bail After RFK Jr. Rally Arrest.”
What possible justification is there for using the headline to identify the armed suspect as, simply, “Anti-Vaxxer”? The epithet is a propaganda term of art for the pharmaceutical industry and its bought-off media courtiers. “Imposter” or “Armed Imposter Posing as Security Guard” would certainly have been much more suitable, relevant, and even sensationalist in terms of attracting readers. Obviously, the Daily Beast is serving a propaganda function by taking a deadly serious story and turning it into an occasion for inappropriately and nonsensically reinforcing the tedious “anti-vaxxer” smear that the corporate media has used to try and “cancel” Kennedy’s presidential campaign as well as his critiques of big pharma corruption.
Arguably even more disturbing are two other aspects of the Daily Beast article. First, the word “assassination” does not appear in the text. As such, there is nothing to explain to the reader the historic significance of the scenario that unfolded in L.A. Secondly, why does the Daily Beast use the arrested man’s middle name: “Adrian Paul Aispuro.” It is not conventional for journalists to identify criminal suspects like this. It is a very strange convention that infamous assassins are identified this way, but again, the article never mentions the word assassination. This seems creepy at best, sinister at worst.
I write “sinister” because of the context that Daily Beast mendaciously omits. Los Angeles was the city where Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. The site of the Ambassador Hotel—where RFK was fatally shot after winning the 1968 California primary—is not far from where this recent incident occurred.
Although Sirhan Sirhan is still in jail for the murder of Senator Kennedy, many people—including, as reported in The Washington Post, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend—have concluded that the case is unsolved and should be reopened.
The biggest problem with the state’s case against Sirhan is that it is contradicted by the senator’s autopsy, the forensic evidence, and the testimony of eyewitnesses at the scene—all of which indicate that Sirhan could not have fired the shots that hit Robert F. Kennedy. Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi determined that Kennedy was struck at near point blank range from behind by bullets traveling upward from right to left. Karl Uecker, the witness closest to the shooting later described the event:
[T]here was a distance of at least one and one-half feet between the muzzle of Sirhan’s gun and Senator Kennedy’s head. The revolver was directly in front of my nose. After Sirhan’s second shot, I pushed his hand that held the revolver down, and pushed him onto the steam table. There is no way that the shots described in the autopsy could have come from Sirhan’s gun. [He] never got close enough for a point-blank shot, never.
Another disturbing parallel between this latest incident and the 1968 RFK assassination is that the arrested man was impersonating a security guard. Many researchers and even Robert Kennedy Jr. himself believe that Senator Kennedy was killed by an intelligence asset posing as a security guard—a man named Thane Caesar. Like Aispuro, Caesar held ultra-rightist political views. Caesar was standing directly behind RFK when he was shot. Kennedy tore off Caesar’s clip-on tie as he fell to the ground where he still held it in his hand. Some witnesses testified that Caesar had drawn his sidearm or even that he had fired his gun.
