', Mankiewicz went to work for McGovern in 1971, reflecting some time afterward that he 'thought McGovern had the right issues, and history has tended to bear him out.'. Jeff: Paul, when you look at our politics today, what do you think Robert Kennedy would think of where we are today? After McGovern's decisive defeat, Mankiewicz wrote a column for The Washington Post and in 1976 made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for a House seat from Maryland. Bob must’ve asked him too a few minutes later because Abo said to Bob, “I just checked on Paul. My brothers are living in our family home and they would take care of me.” In a way, sort of tantalizing him with this. He also became a syndicated columnist and a television news commentator. They refuse to investigate and they’ve refused to investigate for nearly 50 years, 48 years. He was named president of National Public Radio in 1977 and was credited with strengthening its news operation and doubling its audience. But he was partly to blame for the selection of Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri as running mate. That was the first time I ever knew this. I just felt really awful for him that they were doing this all because they were not going to release him. I found the FBI statement of Dr. Stanley Abo. I didn’t know what happened. Paul: That’s where we are at this point. As Watergate investigators exposed dirty tricks by White House operatives in the campaign, Mr. Nixon resigned and Mr. Mankiewicz — his name high on the president’s “enemies list” — wrote “Perfectly Clear: Nixon from Whittier to Watergate” (1973) and “U.S. You know that that system, you have new evidence, a new discovery, you got to do peer review. Close to R. Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps director and a Kennedy brother-in-law, Mr. Mankiewicz joined the circle of Kennedy advisers after the president’s assassination. That became an important part of the campaign. The two guns and 13 shots. But out of the 200, there’s only one that had any kind of audio evidence because the media people or anyone covering the walk to the media concert had their tape recorder shut off. An outspoken critic of Richard Nixon, Mankiewicz wrote two books about the disgraced president: 'Perfectly Clear: Nixon From Whittier to Watergate' and 'U.S. “All we did was lose an election. Mankiewicz’s first marriage, to Holly Jolley, ended in divorce. So here we had this new evidence and we took it to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. For an America divided over the Vietnam War, Mr. Mankiewicz articulated the senator’s split with President Lyndon B. Johnson, and after Mr. Kennedy began his run for the presidency in March 1968, Mr. Mankiewicz became prominent speaking for the notoriously shy Democratic front-runner. But after listening for a couple of hours to the parole board people, going over his record, talking about, and asking where he could go if he were released. What do we know about him? Thank you for being with us. Some 26 hours later, Mankiewicz emerged, pale and haggard but poised, to deliver tragic news. Please do not post links or promotional material. The judge granted us access to the files, but we only got a few photographs, they said, ‘We don’t have the files’ which is a lie. Then, the assistant district attorney-retired, who handles the parole boards for the district attorney just went after him viciously based on really false evidence that I knew was wrong and I contended with him as he was doing this. They went into the California State archives of… A major list came out saying ‘this evidence has been destroyed or is missing’, which really again, complicated the case. Those bullets matched each other but they didn’t match the Sirhan gun. I have my RA checking out the cite, and if it checks out, it’s good material to add to the page above. What I found out recently the Kirschke case was a deputy district attorney of Evelle Younger, who shot his wife and her lover in their bed, and then tried to cover up with an alibi. Towards the end of the day, they took a recess and came back and said to us, ” Well, we’ll have another hearing in five years.” You know, it’s so horrible. The House Intelligence Committee investigation, also, came to the conclusions that there was a conspiracy. 0000001523 00000 n A number of things happened at the convention which really cemented my relationship with Bob. Weekly WhoWhatWhy on Sunday, Reading Time: 3 minutes The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations ; 9 Ways to Reform the Supreme Court Besides Court-Packing ; and More Picks 10/23, Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump Org Imports Tons of Chinese Goods ; How Does a Pandemic End? Air date: 06/05/2007 The content of the video belongs to ABC News. Jeff: First tell us a little bit about your history with Bobby. It was just a real sensational time for me because I had some problems with Reuther over my endorsement of Robert Kennedy. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. As a service to our readers, we provide transcripts with our podcasts. Assassination Archives and Research Center, JFK, Dylan, and the Death of the American Dream, Understanding the Forensic Evidence and Witness Testimony, ‘Bob Dylan, the JFK Assassination, and My Frantic Quest to Connect the Two’. I want to tell him that he didn’t shoot Robert Kennedy. Learn how your comment data is processed. * Assassination Archives and Research Center leads the fight in federal court for full JFK disclosure. — RFK’s press secretary Frank Mankiewicz, quoted in David Talbot’s Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, p. 312. Frank Mankiewicz; RFK; 6 comments. Paul: What I was able to do was file a lawsuit as a victim against Sirhan and any others that might be involved. It becomes a very political thing, particularly for Evelle Younger who was running for attorney general during the Robert Kennedy Sirhan case and had this Kirschke case in his background as well. Paul: Bob was supposed to go off the left side of the platform but it was understood he shouldn’t go back the way he came in — sort of a strategic decision for protection. And Bob then stopped and shook hands with a couple of kitchen workers who I got to know. Frank Fabian Mankiewicz II (May 16, 1924 – October 23, 2014) was an American journalist, political adviser, president of National Public Radio and public relations executive. Mr. Mankiewicz then became executive vice president of Gray & Co., a public relations and lobbying firm. After the war, he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA in 1947 and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 1948. In June 1968, Kennedy had just won the California primary and finished his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. “I have a short announcement to read which I will read at this time. They accused Sirhan.[?] The comments below have not been moderated. It seemed that both men might be destined for the White House after Mr. Kennedy won the California primary on June 4. Frank Mankiewicz, a writer and Democratic political strategist who was Sen. Robert Kennedy’s press secretary, directed Sen. George McGovern’s losing 1972 presidential campaign and for s… We went to the grand jury in ’72. In fact Lyndon Johnson called Reuther at one point and asked him to get me out of the race after I’d endorsed them. Ethel was pregnant at that point with Lori. And that was the tape that Brad Johnson found. James Redford, a filmmaker, activist and son of actor Robert Redford, has died of liver cancer at the age of 58. Jeff: I appreciate it. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania for a year, then joined the Army infantry in World War II and saw combat at the Battle of the Bulge. 0000001651 00000 n His uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, won four Oscars for writing and directing 'A Letter to Three Wives' and 'All About Eve.'. You can also support this podcast and all the work we do by going to whowhatwhy.org/donate. But they refuse to recognize that there’s evidence that he didn’t do it. I actually voted of course early in the morning. So he was committed to the cause of JFK truth. One reason I went down to say to Sirhan mainly, “You did not do it. One by the firing of the gun of Sirhan, two, one missing Kennedy, two missing Kennedy, one hitting me. So we had seven really great experts to go over the evidence and we were astounded by what we found. 2661 0 obj<>stream Lodwrick Cook, epitome of L.A.’s bygone era of corporate engagement, dies. Rhonda Fleming, an actress and singer who starred opposite such leading men as Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Ronald Reagan, has died at 97. Here is a letter she wrote in 1994 to a teacher: Evelyn Lincoln4701 Willard AvenueChevy Chase, Maryland 20816(301) 664-3670. So our next move was to ask the court to set up a panel of experts and re-fired a set for handguns to see if they match the bullets that were in evidence and we were able to get that. Kennedy was gunned down in a kitchen pantry by Sirhan Sirhan, a young Palestinian later convicted of his murder. The next thing that happened was we began working with the farm workers’ union with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, back in ’65. Here we were with all this information, and the DA at the time and the Attorney General were opposed to anything further and the judge closed down the case. In 1988, he married the novelist Patricia O’Brien. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. I started being interested in all other things he said. We also went to the district attorney with 5000 documents and all the evidence of the second gunman. And they laughed and left. Is Anyone Ready to Start Bailing? There are only 200 left. The files are locked up and they wouldn’t answer any of our questions. We got Van Praag to give his scholarly paper on the evidence of the second gun. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. He became the best political person I’d ever known and really deep into problems people were facing: poor people, people of color, of different origins and so forth. Sirhan got off two shots, missed Robert Kennedy and I was right behind him, about 6 feet behind him at that point, missed Robert Kennedy and hit me in the top of my head and then somebody else behind Robert Kennedy shot him. Related front page panorama photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Robert Kennedy (Sven Walnum Photograph Collection / JFK Library). And that’s when we heard the shots.”. Fortunately, there was an AP reporter and he was watching all of this as I, who was sitting next to him. The marriage ended in divorce. Web link: http://www.disinfo.com/tag/evelyn-lincoln/, I read Roger Stone book on the assassination of JFK. endstream endobj 2660 0 obj<>/Size 2648/Type/XRef>>stream One was the Kennedy neck bullet, the only whole bullet extracted from the floor that were shot at Robert Kennedy. He was 90. Paul Schrade, a long-time friend and political ally of Kennedy’s, was shot in the head that night, but he recovered from his wounds. The South Dakota liberal, who had won the Democratic nomination as a sharp critic of the Vietnam War, wound up winning only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Frank Mankiewicz dies at 90; Democratic insider was RFK aide, led NPR Frank Mankiewicz addresses the media June 5, 1968, after Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s surgery. Please help us do more. They went public with an LA Free Press article and got some attention but not very much. I mean they would know there was clearly a rush to judgment on their part. I just felt that I had to get out of it. But the dream shattered minutes after Mr. Kennedy’s midnight victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel. These two experts put all this evidence together, all the files together in a 500-page book and published hundreds just for lawyers and experts. It shows that the files we actually got the files in 1988. 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