This is not a blog devoted to the assassinations of the 1960s. Still, I would be remiss not to direct your attention to Dave Talbot's terrific new piece on RFK's secret investigations into the death of his brother.

You can't really understand Talbot's work, however, without comprehending the machinations of Walter Sheridan, the FBI/NSA man in whom RFK placed a deep and misguided trust. See here and here and here. The last link goes to an important interview with Garrison's witness Perry Russo:

Walter Sheridan comes to me and says listen we gonna take Garrison out of this. He said we can't allow this to go on any further. He says now you're going down with him. And he plays this hot cold relationship...but I'll give you an out. He says, I want you to go over to Biloxy Mississippi, we already have it arranged. You are to go and do a hotel-motel room and he says in that room Clay Shaw is going to be there. He says I don't care what you talk about when you go in there but when you finish one hour later, half and hour later, he says you come outside. He says we're gonna have the cameras rolling and you're gonna state the following: One, that you do not know Clay Shaw and you never did.. Two: that you never knew anybody named Oswald and three, you never heard of anything about any shooting of the President back in '63 before the President was shot. And he says you do that, he says, we won't go after you. You might be able to save yourself. But he says you gonna go with him, we're getting Garrison. He's done with. We'll finish him off.

Regarding RFK's own assassination: I hope some of you will read (or re-read) my earlier piece here.