Unexplained extra bullets that might have been fired at Robert F. Kennedy the day he died 50 years ago are major issues that need to be reinvestigated, former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik told Newsmax TV.
Kerik was asked about claims there might have been a second shooter, or least a second gun, used in RFK's assassination during an appearance on "Newsmax Now." RFK was gunned down in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel June 5, 1968.
Recent news reports marking RFK's death, including one in the June issue of Newsmax Magazine, hypothesize there were two different types of bullets found at the scene and there were more bullet holes than the convicted assassin had in his revolver. An audio tape of the shooting supports the claim as many as 13 shots were fired.
"I have a problem with what we've just heard, where you have people back then talking about two different rounds or two different types of bullets," Kerik said. "You mean to tell me that wasn't investigated by the FBI? It wasn't investigated by the National Security Agency?
"Those things weren't resolved in their investigation and there wasn't some conclusion as to why and where those other rounds came from? That's a pretty big problem. If those things are true, that's a big problem."
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Like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, numerous conspiracy theories have manifested over the years regarding RFK's killing, including that there was a second shooter or the convicted shooter — 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan — was either brainwashed to commit the act or he did not pull the trigger at all.
Kerik said the truth of what really happened might lie in the evidence.
"We have to look at the real evidence," he said. "And if the evidence is what they're saying, then somebody should be looking at it."
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