DALLAS: Fifty years after the assassination of former United States President John F Kennedy, which stunned the Americans, his nephew for the first time has acknowledged publicly that there was disbelief in the family that a lone gunman was responsible for the killing.
Robert F Kennedy Jr said his father (Robert Kennedy) believed that the Warren Commission report, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president , was a “shoddy piece of craftsmanship” .
The mystery of the November 22, 1963 assassination were retouched by Kennedy and his sister Rory at a Friday night interview aired in the same city where the killing took place and come as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the president’s death.
JFK’s brother, former US attorney general Robert Kennedy had publicly supported the Warren Commission, but privately had serious reservations , his son said. Robert said his father had serious doubts about the accuracy of the report and his US justice department investigators looked into the allegations the assassin had got aid from mafia, CIA or other organizations.