Evidence of Revision 4, The RFK Assassination

This is the fourth of a six-part series looking at events in the US in the 60s and 70s. The title Evidence of Revision is an indication of the way the narratives were being changed as they unfolded. An alternative title is The Assassination of America. The films make extensive use of picture-in-picture display, and have a very fine ambient music soundtrack.

The fourth film in this series looks at the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Robert F Kennedy 5 years after his brother. Following his brother’s assassination Robert Kennedy had stood for the Senate as a representative for New York State. Again his incorruptibility was evident as he continued his pursuit of organised crime, and tried to weed out corruption wherever it was found.

By 1968 he had decided to run for President, and he was well on a very popular run to being elected as the Democratic candidate to stand against Richard Nixon. It was in the midst of the primaries that he was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his victory in the California.

This film starts at the hotel, and has it running as the background for much of the time as we learn more about RFK’s career and the many powerful enemies he made along the way. We then see extensive footage from the night itself, and hear from eye-witnesses, many of whose accounts differ from the official version of events.

I think even more than his brother Robert Kennedy represented the hopes of his generation for a different approach to politics, both at home and abroad, and this was not to everyone’s liking, and he was disposed of before he had chance to make the changes that were so needed.

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