Kennedy Family Rules | FrontPage Magazine
By Lloyd Billingsley On November 18, 2013
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down John Fitzgerald Kennedy as his presidential motorcade passed the Texas Book Depository in Dallas. The assassination was captured on film and so was the assassination of the assassin, so it is only right that 50 years later JFK should be getting attention. The conspiracy theorists are out in force and PBS has become a virtual JFK channel even as other stories confirm the lingering clout of the Kennedy family.
In 1960 JFK defeated Richard Nixon by a whisker and in his search for an Attorney General, the new president looked no farther than his brother, Robert Francis Kennedy. Robert wanted to be president in the footsteps of his brother but Sirhan Sirhan assassinated RFK on June 5, 1968. Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, is the sister of Rushton Skakel, father of Michael Skakel. In 2002 Michael Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering his neighbor Martha Moxley with a golf club in Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 30, 1975. Judge Thomas Bishop recently awarded Skakel, now 53, a new trial on the grounds that his attorney Michel Sherman was negligent. That comes as good news to Skakel’s cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In 2003 RFK Jr. wrote a lengthy article in the Atlantic charging that Michael Skakel was innocent and his imprisonment a miscarriage of justice. Kennedy recently squared off on Fox News with detective Mark Fuhrman, author of Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley? That 1998 book made a strong case that Michael Skakel bludgeoned Martha Moxley to death with a golf club. Four years later Skakel had been convicted and imprisoned. Furhman told Fox’s Geraldo Rivera he has no doubt of Skakel’s guilt. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced Fuhrman and charged him with botching the O.J. Simpson case.
The author shows how the Greenwich police practically served as a private security force for the wealthy Skakel family. The local police, inexperienced with murder cases, also botched the investigation, particularly the crime scene. The 6-iron murder weapon was from a set owned by the Skakels, and the evidence pointed strongly to someone in the family, particularly Michael, known for violent behavior. So Martha Moxley had good reason to fear him.
The police tendered a theory of some mysterious transient and did their best to block Fuhrman’s investigation. …
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