Investigation: JFK & RFK — Staged Assassination Hoax (Kennedy Family Compliance)
TL;DR: Open dossier on two paired Kennedy “assassinations” read as public death theater, not lone-gunman murders: JFK (Nov 1963) — controlled Dealey Plaza motorcade, automatronic / blood-pack ruse, Pavlick real attempt as compliance trigger, Vietnam escalation; RFK (Jun 1968) — Sirhan as front-shooter decoy, forensic case fails to link .22 to fatal brain slug, Hartwell Means–Motive–Opportunity read for staged exit after California primary. Family pattern: comply with fake death to stop real attempts and scale wars without living president resistance. Cross-read JFK agent essay, prophet / Downard, Epstein staged-death precedent.
Status: Open — project thesis + public-record / forensic anchors; no proof of either man’s post-event public life. Date: 2026-06-29
Guide
- Shared hoax grammar (Kennedy lane) → §1
- JFK — Nov 22, 1963 (site thesis) → §2
- RFK — Jun 4–6, 1968 (forensic + Hartwell) → §3
- Parallel table → §4
- Means, motive, opportunity (RFK — Hartwell) → §5
- Paradigm arc — betrayal, antibodies, endgame (author) → §6
- Open questions → §7
- Sources → §8
1. Shared hoax grammar
| Element | JFK (site) | RFK (this file + Hartwell) |
| Public event | Televised motorcade | Primary victory → pantry “shooting” |
| Controlled venue | Dealey Plaza, few witnesses | Ambassador Hotel pantry, escorts + press |
| Decoy shooter | Oswald narrative | Sirhan Sirhan (pinned after ~2 shots) |
| Forensic confusion | Magic bullet, Warren Commission | Wolfer bullet map, unlinked .22, brain slug size |
| Family compliance | Jackie, Connally circle | Kennedy network, JFK precedent |
| War / board reset | Vietnam scale-up | 1968 election exit, re-open JFK case avoided |
| “Conspiracy theory” containment | CIA coinage / ridicule lane | Sirhan conviction closes file |
Project stance: Both events are readable as one institutional playbook — spectacle assassination to remove or simulate removal of a presidential threat while maximizing public grief and minimizing accountable autopsy.
2. JFK — November 1963 fake assassination
Canonical site essay: agent.md (unchanged — summary here for investigation routing only).
Core claims (project thesis — not mainstream):
- JFK was never assassinated — Nov 22, 1963 was a staged fake assassination after a real Richard Pavlick attempt; family ordered to comply.
- Dealey Plaza motorcade = elaborate ruse; automatronic mannequin + blood timed like gunshot; Jacqueline and Connally party went along.
- Why comply: Deep State would continue real assassination attempts if JFK stayed in power; fake death allowed Asian war scale-up without his resistance.
- JFK as Rex Bellator — war-prep figure (Cuba, Asia, Russia containment), not peace-icon; Vietnam follows hoax.
- Oswald + Warren Commission magic bullet = confusion layer; CIA “conspiracy theory” coinage poisons serious audit.
Tier: Project thesis in agent.md; this investigation does not re-litigate every Dealey detail — it indexes the essay for RFK parallel.
Supporting in repo: prophet.md (Downard / sorcerous read — adjacent, not required for forensic hoax lane).
3. RFK — June 1968 Ambassador Hotel
Dean Hartwell — primary RFK forensic source (cite when needed)
Author: Dean T. Hartwell — researcher; 40+ years on Kennedy assassinations; publishes forensic collations and hoax reads on RFK (and related JFK / 9/11 work).
| Asset | URL / path | Notes |
| Author site (hub) | deanhartwell.weebly.com | Essays, books, contact — A Lot about a Little |
| RFK essays hub | Robert F. Kennedy | Autopsy discrepancies, missing footage, staged-history lane; links older PDFs |
| Who Shot RFK (2025 pamphlet) | PDF © Dean T. Hartwell — distributed on Substack (@pwp911) and mirrored locally | 17 pp. — eyewitness collation, Wolfer map, Hunt slug-size argument, Means–Motive–Opportunity hoax conclusion |
| Local PDF mirror | ~/dev/wget/hartwell/who_shot_rfk.pdf | Same pamphlet; offline / grep reference |
| Local index | ~/dev/wget/hartwell/index-who-shot-rfk.md | Paradigm Threat summary of Hartwell thesis |
| Earlier Hartwell RFK PDF (2020) | History Was Staged — RFK faked assassination | Prior essay on same lane (site hub) |
| RFK autopsy (hosted by Hartwell) | rfk_autopsy.pdf | Primary autopsy doc for height / eye-color disputes on hub page |
Hartwell’s two-sentence forensic core (2025 Substack / pamphlet — use when citing him):
- The bullet described in the RFK autopsy is too large to have come from Sirhan Sirhan’s .22 revolver.
- There is no evidence of a shooter besides Sirhan in the official frame — yet Sirhan cannot be the fatal shooter if (1) holds → conclusion treated as “unspeakable” (staged death / hoax).
Site tier: Hartwell documented collation + author hoax conclusion; Paradigm Threat adopts forensic wedge (1)+(2) and pairs with JFK compliance thesis in §2 — does not require every Hartwell contact roster without independent audit.
Official clock
| Event | Claim |
| Jun 4, 1968 | Wins California and South Dakota Democratic primaries |
| After midnight | Shot at Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) pantry |
| Jun 6, 1968 | Death announced (~25 hours later) |
| Sirhan Sirhan | Convicted first-degree murder; still imprisoned |
Eyewitness tier (documented testimony — Hartwell collation)
Paul Schrade (union activist, behind RFK):
- Sirhan aimed ~3 ft in front of RFK; shot #1 missed; shot #2 hit Schrade (6′5″) in head — not RFK.
- Sirhan pinned after two shots; shots #3–8 fired away from RFK; no prosecution witness testified Sirhan shot RFK.
Karl Uecker (maître d’ escort):
- Grabbed Sirhan after first shots; gun pointed away from RFK; Sirhan always in front of Kennedy.
Edward Minassian (co-escort):
- Gun ~3 ft from RFK at start; after first two shots, doubt shots were same direction as initial pair.
Vincent Di Pierro:
- Suspect 4–6 ft from senator; RFK reared back sharply on first shot, then falling.
Height geometry: Schrade 6′5″, RFK ~5′10″, Sirhan ~5′5″ — explains why rear witness did not see Sirhan when following RFK.
Tier: Documented grand jury / FBI excerpts (NARA RFK releases 2025, NYT 1968 trial excerpts) as summarized by Hartwell — not re-scanned here.
Physical evidence tier (documented disputes)
Weapon: Iver Johnson .22 eight-shot revolver — empty when seized; no reload in incident → ≤8 rounds from Sirhan.
DeWayne Wolfer (LAPD) eight-bullet accounting (Hartwell / Hunt collation):
- Behind right ear into head (slug / fragments)
- Through shoulder pad → Schrade forehead (recovered)
- Right rear shoulder → neck (recovered)
- Right upper back through chest → ceiling
- Goldstein buttock (recovered)
- Through Goldstein pants → floor → Stroll leg (recovered)
- Weisel abdomen (recovered)
- Ceiling → Evans head (recovered)
John Hunt (Buried in Plain Sight, 2022) issues cited by Hartwell:
| Issue | Implication |
| Neck bullet not properly marked | Chain / identification weak |
| Head fragments no chain of possession | Origin doubtful |
| Wolfer never linked Sirhan bullets to RFK wounds | No ballistic closure |
| Noguchi / Scanlan / Cuneo did not examine brain bullet | Autopsy narrative unchecked |
| X-ray slug in brain larger than .22 chamber | Sirhan ruled out for fatal shot if slug is real |
Hartwell hypothesis H1–H8: All eight Sirhan rounds accounted without him firing the fatal brain slug; fatal slug may be narrative construct — officially still in corpse at Arlington, too dangerous to remove.
Tier: Documented problems in LAPD handling (Hunt, NARA docs); hoax conclusion = author (Hartwell + site parallel read).
Hartwell hoax conclusion (author)
“The story of the bullet is part of a larger narrative designed to convince the public falsely that RFK had been killed. In other words, he faked his death.”
Not proven in pamphlet — alternative when official forensics fail and eyewitness + ballistics exclude Sirhan as Kennedy’s killer.
4. JFK vs RFK parallel read
| Dimension | JFK 1963 | RFK 1968 |
| Spectacle | National motorcade | Primary-night victory → pantry |
| Shooter myth | Oswald | Sirhan |
| Witness problem | Magic bullet, few clear lines | Sirhan in front, RFK falls back, shots after pin |
| Autopsy / ballistics | Warren Commission theater | Wolfer map; slug size vs .22 |
| Family precedent | Pavlick real attempt → compliance | JFK “murder” five years prior |
| War board | Vietnam | 1968 election / re-open JFK threat removed |
| Site file | agent.md | This investigation |
Site synthesis: RFK lane confirms JFK was not a one-off — Kennedy compliance with staged death is repeatable.
5. RFK Means–Motive–Opportunity (Hartwell)
| Factor | Hartwell argument |
| Means | Former AG + senator — LAPD, coroner, medical contacts; staged warning shots; destroy contradicting evidence; rehearsed pantry |
| Motive | Same enemies as JFK; as president could re-open Dallas case |
| Opportunity | Ambassador Hotel (film-history venue); sympathy after family tragedy; primary win → maximum grief window |
Site read: Aligns with JFK Deep State / family compliance frame in agent.md — Hartwell supplies RFK-specific forensic wedge; site does not require every Hartwell contact name to be adjudicated.
6. Paradigm arc — betrayal, antibodies, endgame (author)
Author sentiment (2026-06-29): The Kennedy hoaxes are not only “they faked it” forensic puzzles — they are civic betrayal at a depth the public did not expect a president to be capable of.
JFK compliance as betrayal
| Layer | Read |
| What the public believed | A president could be murdered by outsiders; the office still meant something sacred |
| What the hoax implies | The chief executive (and family) agreed to lie to the nation about death itself — spectacle over truth |
| Institutional damage | Government credibility poisoned at the root: if Dallas was theater, every later crisis is auditable as possible stagecraft — Vietnam follows as war the living JFK would have blocked |
| War board | Fake assassination removed resistance to Asian war scale-up; public grief substituted for policy consent |
Tier: Author thesis — moral/political framing atop agent.md compliance read (Pavlick real attempt → family ordered to fake death).
Antibody counter-moves (saved the republic — author)
Not total defeat of the script — partial institutional antibodies that slowed or reversed CIA–MI6 holy-war geometry:
| Episode | Antibody read | Cross-read |
| 1971 — Ellsberg / Pentagon Papers | Document antibody — war planning exposed; public could see Vietnam machinery | NSA investigation § Tonkin / Ellsberg |
| 1971 — Supreme Court (NY Times v. US) | Press could publish — legal shield for truth lane vs executive secrecy | Same |
| NSA SIGINT lineage | Hanyok Tonkin audit (2001 study → 2005 fight) — institutional antibody inside SIGINT | Good-actor / interagency antibody |
| 2001 — 9/11 (good-actor read) | Historic antibody psyop — televised counter–false flag against CIA slow-burn script; WTC 7 decapitation; War on Terror replaces covert holy war | 09-11 investigation |
Author framing: Ellsberg + Court + NSA document fights did not restore Kennedy-trust — they saved enough transparency and agency balance that the species-virus lane could not run unchecked after Dallas.
End of a long paradigm
Working arc (~1945–present):
- Post-WWII — CIA/MI6 slow-burn WW3 / holy-war script (OSS continuity, Paperclip, Iran pipeline).
- 1963 — JFK hoax locks Vietnam board; public traumatized into deferring to institutions.
- 1971–1975 — Ellsberg / Court rupture — some truth returns to citizens.
- 2001 — 9/11 antibody reverses CIA autonomy plans (WTC 7, DHS/DNI rebalance) — not “outside terror won” but interagency counter-move (good-actor thesis).
- 2020s — Author: we are at the very end of a very long paradigm — containment fights, AI governance, dump-and-cover, fleet releases (JFK/RFK/MLK files) as late daylight before next reset or collapse of the 80-year script.
Tier: Author synthesis — not prediction of date; structural sense that antibody wins (9/11, SIGINT audits, leaks) and infection wins (Dallas, Vietnam, Epstein-class networks) cannot both hold forever.
7. Open questions
| ID | Question |
| Q1 | NARA 2025 RFK releases — full grand jury PDF set vs Hartwell excerpts? |
| Q2 | Brain slug — any primary measurement of hole vs .22 in autopsy photos? |
| Q3 | Thane Cesar — armed rear guard; discharged? Moldea vs second-gun researchers |
| Q4 | JFK–RFK — shared handlers / LAPD / CIA nodes in both hoaxes? |
| Q5 | Post-1968 RFK — any credible proof-of-life dossier (tier D only)? |
| Q6 | Sirhan — hypnosis / Manchurian lane vs decoy lane — discourse not mutually exclusive |
8. Sources and local mirrors
| Source | Role |
| agent.md | JFK site thesis (primary) |
| prophet.md | Downard / cultural sorcery (secondary) |
| Dean Hartwell — site hub | deanhartwell.weebly.com |
| Hartwell — RFK hub | robert-f-kennedy.html |
| Hartwell — Who Shot RFK (2025) | Substack @pwp911; see §3 Hartwell block |
| Hartwell — History Was Staged (2020) | history_was_staged.pdf |
| Hartwell — hosted autopsy | rfk_autopsy.pdf |
~/dev/wget/hartwell/who_shot_rfk.pdf | Local mirror of 2025 pamphlet |
~/dev/wget/hartwell/index-who-shot-rfk.md | Wget index / summary |
| John Hunt, Buried in Plain Sight (2022) | Wolfer / slug forensics (via Hartwell) |
| Shane O’Sullivan, Who Killed Bobby? (2008) | Romero / pantry geometry |
| Dan Moldea, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy (1995) | Thane Cesar |
| Epstein staged death | Later public death ≠ exit precedent |
Related investigations
| File | Link |
| JFK essay | ../agent.md |
| Downard tribute | ../prophet.md |
| Staged death / suspended animation | epstein-death-escape |
| 20th–21st c. catalog | 20th-21st-century-catalog |
| Good-actor / NSA antibody | good-actor-theory-interagency-antibody |
| NSA / Ellsberg / Tonkin | nsa-investigation |
Keywords: #JFK #RFK #Kennedy #Sirhan #StagedAssassination #FakeDeath #AmbassadorHotel #Hartwell #ParadigmThreatFiles
Last updated: 2026-06-29 (§6 paradigm arc; Hartwell web/PDF/Substack citation block)
Limits and disclaimers
- Victims / bystanders: Schrade, Weisel, Goldstein, Stroll, Evans — real injuries in official record; hoax thesis does not deny pantry violence, only RFK fatality as packaged.
- Sirhan: Convicted; this file audits forensic closure, not a legal appeal brief.
- Tiers: Eyewitness / NARA excerpts = documented; JFK hoax = project thesis (agent.md); RFK faked death = author (Hartwell + site parallel) until independent ballistic replication.
- Survival: Not claimed proven for either brother.
Investigator notes: Hartwell — deanhartwell.weebly.com, Who Shot RFK (2025) via Substack @pwp911, local mirror ~/dev/wget/hartwell/; Hunt 2022; NARA RFK 2025 paths in Hartwell pamphlet.
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