The store was a full-service men’s haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs. Among his clients were many movie stars and gangsters, his family said, including the Marx brothers and Mickey Cohen. [^11]
The Factor’s support of L.A.…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …
Robert F. Kennedy
politician · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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This appearance is a passing reference only, embedded in a discussion of uninvestigated political crimes and State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs); the excerpt cuts off mid-sentence but seems to invoke RFK's assassination as one of several Cold War–era events whose official explanations remain contested. The citation functions to establish historical precedent for how state power and secrecy intertwine with public narrative, a concern relevant to the course's broader interest in how systems of control (political, technological, informational) operate beneath official accounts. Without fuller context from the readings, it's difficult to assess what conceptual work RFK does here beyond indexing a moment when institutional power and suspicion about hidden infrastructure intersected visibly in American life.
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John F. Kennedy 2Anthony Summers 1Daniel Ellsberg 1David Corn 1David Ray Griffin 1David Talbot 1Eric Hufschmid 1Erik Hoffman 1Frank Rich 1Gary Sick 1James Douglass 1James Fetzer 1Jim Garrison 1Lance deHaven-Smith 1Lisa Pease 1Mark Crispin Miller 1Mark Lane 1Michael Isikoff 1Nafeez Ahmed 1Peter Dale Scott 1Robert Groden 1Robert Parry 1Ron Paul 1Theodore White 1Webster Tarpley 1Edward Kienholz 1Gus Russo 1Joseph P. Kennedy 1Marx Brothers 1Mickey Cohen 1