J. Edgar Hoover vs.. Rfk

Robert F. Kennedy was the Democratic Candidate for the presidential election of 1968. J. Edgar Hoover was the head director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

            J. Edgar Hoover strongly disliked large figures such as presidents and Hollywood stars. He was also against communism and black rights groups and consistently pinned Robert Kennedy to these properties. Hoover holding to his beliefs had to kill Robert Kennedy and could easily have done so due to his position of control.

            First of all Kennedy gave a speech in Tennessee regarding the death of Martin Luther King Junior. Hoover was against black civil rights movements and Kennedy talks of King as an equal which was the opposite of what Hoover thought. In J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI files, Hoover alleges King of being a communistic person. Also he states of the FBI’s intent to remove King from his positions at civil rights groups. Hoover’s dislike of Kennedy’s support of King gives motive to kill Kennedy.

Beyond, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy was directly attacked by Hoover in his files. Kennedy’s affair in El Paso Texas for put into Hoover’s FBI files. Why would you put something like that into your files if you do not really have something against that person? Also, Hoover convicts that Paul Corbin who was a communist was a protégé of Kennedy.

Beyond sentiment against Robert Kennedy, Hoover had to plot his scheme against Kennedy. Hoover simply couldn’t just knock on Kennedy’s front door and kill him when he opens the door. He had to go through back doors and pull strings to get to Kennedy. The first place in which Hoover had to get to Kennedy was a decoy. It could have not looked like that Hoover or the FBI had anything to do with Kennedy’s death. In Israel, the Six Days War resolution was issued. The CIA states that J. Edgar Hoover gave information and ideas regarding the Six Days War. When the report was given out, Israel who won the war received the short end of the stick and had to back out of lands that is took. This is relevant because the accused conspirator was Sirhan Sirhan of Israel. Sirhan himself states that he wanted to kill Kennedy because of the outcome on the war. He thought that Kennedy was the reason for Israel’s loss of territory even though Hoover did contribute to the resolution. Hoover used this as leverage and convinced him to be a belligerent against Kennedy.