Did RFK Steal JFK's Brain?

Newser ^ | 10/21/13 | Rob Quinn

[Impala64ssa]

Author claims theft was bizarre cover-up

A lot of JFK-related material will be released in the weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of his assassination but this allegation is definitely going for the craziest: A new book claims that the president's brain was stolen from a secure room in the National Archives by his brother, then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. When authorities realized the footlocker containing the brain was missing in 1966, an investigation uncovered "compelling evidence" that RFK and his assistant, Angie Novello, were the culprits, James Swanson, author of End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, tells the New York Post.

Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president's reputation. "My conclusion is that Robert Kennedy did take his brother’s brain—not to conceal evidence of a conspiracy but perhaps to conceal evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy’s illnesses, or perhaps to conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was taking," says.

[Impala64ssa]

The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination is coming up. Just as an anectode, I remember many years ago my parents telling me a year before he was shot we were in a recession. Like many other seasoned citizens at the time, my grandparents, who lived through the Depression were worried that we were heading for another one. Also William Buckley wrote an interesting piece where he claimed that had JFK not been shot and ran for re-election in 64, Goldwater could have defeated him, maybe not a landslide, but a victory nonetheless.

[apoxonu]

was it...Abby Normal?

[taildragger]

Also William Buckley wrote an interesting piece where he claimed that had JFK not been shot and ran for re-election in 64, Goldwater could have defeated him, maybe not a landslide, but a victory nonetheless.

Yes no one will say he was mediocre to poor as a POTUS, not to mention all the things Teddy did to fubar us that stay with us today. It wasn't Camelot, it was may have been something else with Rot at the end of it...

[Gaffer]

One assumes that JFK actually had a brain to steal in the first place.

[Lmo56]

I wonder if he stuffed it down his pants ala Sandy Berger ...

[Artie]

“Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president’s reputation.”

I don’t think anything is too crazy with the government anymore. I seem to remember some years ago that Teddy ‘The Swimmer” had JFK’s original sarcophagus drilled full of holes, towed out to the deepest part of the Atlantic by a naval vessel and sunk so that it wouldn’t end up in the wrong hands or on Ebay.

[Steely Tom]

In the History Channel JFK assassination series, an individual who claims to have been present at the Walter Reed autopsy of Kennedy describes a number of very strange things that happened during the conduct of that procedure.

Among other things, he said that there were non-medical personnel in the room as observers, and at least one of these individuals had veto power over every step of the autopsy.

[US Navy Vet]

Ok I have a question: Who would have had the MOST to “profit” from JFK’s demise? Answer that one and you will get MUCH closer as to WHO the REAL killer(s) was/were.

[a fool in paradise]

[LS]

There is testimony on film in “Best Evidence” and in the book of the same name by David Lifton of TWO guys who were in the room in Bethesda who were conducting x-rays of JFK and who stated there was no brain in the skull. One of the radiologists insists he put his hands inside the cranium and said “my God, look at the size of the hole.”

[Hardraade]

The lefties are stealing stuff from the National Archives to this day.

Sandy underpants Berger is just the tip of the iceberg.

[a fool in paradise]

Who would have had the MOST to “profit” from JFK’s demise?

[Venturer]

Uncle Teddy had John -John’s body burned and the ashes dumped in the sea without autopsy or anything else.

Probably to hide the drugs.

[plain talk]

Given this involved an assassination of a President what you described makes perfect sense to me. Trust no one and place observers with the President’s body wherever it goes.

[dfwgator]

Here's Ted's brain.

[skinkinthegrass]

Is it pickled (the brain) in Irish Whiskey?
.. if not, it Isn't his brain or any other organ.

[editor-surveyor]

JFK’s tax cuts finally took us out of the Great Depression.

He at least took good advice on monetary matters; that is what got him assassinated.

[Alex Murphy]

Some conspiracy theorists claim the brain was stolen to conceal facts about the assassination, but Swanson believes the brain-swiping was an effort to protect the president's reputation. "My conclusion is that Robert Kennedy did take his brother’s brain—not to conceal evidence of a conspiracy but perhaps to conceal evidence of the true extent of President Kennedy’s illnesses, or perhaps to conceal evidence of the number of medications that President Kennedy was taking," says.

JFK: [regarding the scar on his head] That's where they took a piece of my brain. They got it back in D.C. in that God damn jar. [pause] I got a little bag of sand up there now.
Elvis: But Jack...uhh, no offense but...Elvis: President Kennedy was a white man.
JFK: That's how clever they are. They dyed me this color, all over. can you think of a better way to hide the truth than that?
-- Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy, in Bubba Ho-Tep

[Impala64ssa]

Who would have had the MOST to “profit” from JFK’s demise?
The Kennedy family has a long standing reputation of stepping on toes, backstabbing and just p!ssing people off in general. I think there were many, many people who had good reason to kill JFK, RFK, if not wipe out this whole dysfunctional family. This could be the basis for so many conspiracy theories?

[Hardastarboard]

Not to be insensitive, but if this is true, there wasn’t much to retrieve after JFK was shot in the head.