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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “As soon as Jack was killed, it was J. Edgar Hoover who…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 12:35

And he was. My father was. You need to report to the Attorney general. I'm your, you know, your putative boss, and I am your actual boss. So the second. As soon as Jack was killed, it was J. Edgar Hoover who called my father and told him that his brother had been shot. And an hour later, he called him and told him that his brother was dead. (12:35–12:45)

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Asserts that J. Edgar Hoover informed Robert F. Kennedy Sr. about President Kennedy's assassination.

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