The title of this thread is suspicious in itself. These four assassinations took place in the 1960s in chronological order. John F. Kennedy's assassination was at first ruled not to be a conspiracy, then the government concluded it probably was a conspiracy, and is full of strange coincidences. Following JFK's assassination were the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert. F. Kennedy. JFK's assassin was assassinated on live television and his assassin's assassin died a few years later. This string of assassinations and their deep coincidences have captivated people for over half a century.
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. JFK was Irish, the first Roman Catholic president and a Democrat (The White House). He shares a lot in common with President Joe Biden. Lee Harvey Oswald joined the Marines when he was 17, but was court-martialed and kicked out for shooting himself and attacking an officer. After this he became a communist and moved to Russia. In Russia the KGB was very suspicious of him, but eventually set him up with an apartment. Oswald wanted to be a spy for the KGB, but after slitting his wrists in Russia he was committed to a psychiatric ward and the KGB refused his request. Oswald married Marina Prusakova, the niece of a KGB spy and is given clearance by the U.S. embassy to return to America. Both the KGB and American intelligence had monitored Oswald closely suspecting him of spying for the other side. On November 22, 1963 Oswald assassinated JFK in Dallas Texas (Rockwood, 2013). This is only the beginning of the weirdness.
Jack Ruby was born Jacob Rubenstein and managed dance halls and strip clubs in Dallas. On November 23rd, a day after the JFK assassination Oswald was being transported from the jail in Dallas to a more secure jail. During the transfer was when Ruby shot and killed Oswald. The most amazing thing about this assassination is that it was accidentally filmed on live TV. 3 years later Ruby's case was deemed a mistrial and while awaiting a new trial he spontaneously died of lung cancer (History.com editors, 2021). Very suspicious string of 3 deaths, 2 maybe 3 were assassinations.
Live CBS TV coverage of Ruby shooting Oswald in Dallas November 23, 1963 (KOIN 6 News).
Malcolm X the Muslim and Martin Luther King the Christian were not exactly friends. Malcolm X always wanted to meet with MLK, but MLK always refused. They only met one time for a few minutes (Maranzani, 2021). Malcolm X had learned Islam and joined the Nation of Islam while he was in prison. The official story is that 2 members of the Nation of Islam assassinated Malcolm X on Feburary 21, 1965 in a New York ballroom. However, the two men accused of assassinating Malcom X have been recently exonerated because evidence was withheld in the original case (Southall & Bromwich, 2023). The next assassination is MLK.
Martin Luther King was shot dead on April 4, 1968 at his second floor balcony in Memphis Tennessee. Fingerprints on a rifle near the crime scene led the FBI to James Earl Ray. Ray was a fugitive on the run who had escaped from prison in Missouri in 1967. After being caught in 1969 Ray pled guilty in a plea deal to escape the death penalty. Ray claimed he was innocent until his death in 1998 in prison. The House Select Committee on Assassinations admits there might have been other gunmen, but the HSCA and Department of Justice refuse to open another investigation (The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute).
Robert F. Kennedy is the last on the list here. His assassin was named Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan assassinated RFK on June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. RFK had won the Democratic Primary and was running for president at the time. Sirhan was born in Jerusalem a Palestinian Christian. The motivation for the assassination was that Sirhan opposed RFK's support of Israel at this time, and instead supported Palestine. Sirhan claims he does not remember the shooting and says he was intoxicated at the time (Britannica, 2024). In 2022 the California parole board voted to release Sirhan from prison, but Governor Newsom vetoed that vote. Sirhan remains in prison to this day awaiting a parole decision (Watson, 2023).
At first no conspiracy was the judgement in the assassinations of JFK and MLK, but this opinion was officially changed later on. The Warren Commission was established by executive order to investigate the assassination of JFK (National Archives, 2019). In 1964 it found no conspiracy. The House Select Committee on Assassinations was established in 1964, because it found the CIA withheld information in the Warren Commission (National Archives, 2016). In December of 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations found that JFK, "Was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy," and also concluded the same for MLK (Special, 1978).
This string of assassinations that occurred during the 1960s have captivated people for decades. The government cannot deny that there may be real conspiracies involved in these shootings. All of the figures assassinated were involved in the Civil Rights movement and were considered extreme by some. Many of the convicted assassins claim their innocence. This is just a summary, but in depth these cases get more bizarre. The very acronyms that these figures go by is strange: JFK/MalcolmX/MLK/RFK with three K's and an X at the end KXKK. Considering the current state of affairs and the similarities between Joe Biden and the Kennedys, some might wonder if history could repeat.
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Maranzani, B. (2021, January, 19). Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X only met once. Biography. https://www.biography.com/activists/martin-luther-king-jr-malcolm-x-meeting
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Southall, A., & Bromwich, J. E. (2021, November, 17). 2 men convicted of killing Malcolm X will be exonerated after decades. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyregion/malcolm-x-killing-exonerated.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BE4.BXIu.uAklAk1WHlUS&smid=url-share
Special, M. H. (1978, December, 31). House panel reports a conspiracy 'Probable' in the Kennedy slaying. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/31/archives/house-panel-reports-a-conspiracy-probable-in-the-kennedy-slaying.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BE4.nBfB.oaQRY1Icz7VU&smid=url-share
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. (n.d.). Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Stanford University. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/assassination-martin-luther-king-jr
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Watson, J. (2023, March, 1). RFK killer Sirhan Sirhan denied parole by California board. Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-assassin-sirhan-sirhan-parole-677c24ee621f6cb70b6165e741f87e65