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    An Interview with Bill Klaber


©Paul Nellen, Hamburg Germany, 1994

Bill Klaber is the author of "The RFK Tapes", a one hour program for a small private New York State radio station. In 1993, the program was broadcast by more than 160 radio stations across the U.S.

"The murder of RFK is peculiar for a number of reasons. On the surface it seems like a very open and shut case: a man is shot and another man is caught at the scene of the crime with a gun in hand. Very simple, it appears. But underneath those facts lay a lot of other facts which are disturbing and strange. One of the strange facts is that the police took the files of the RFK-assassination and held them secret for 20 years. That always bothered me. I always wondered why. And so I began to look into the reasons why the files were kept secret for 20 years. And I found a number of very disturbing things about the assassination."

"These are people who have been involved in the case in one way or another. Some of them since the assassination. Some of those people who were there in the night of the assassination. And when I made the program, I travelled around the country and I talked with people who were there, people who investigated the crime and people who have done investigative work since that time and recorded their recollections."

"I'm just a volunteer. This is a very small radio station up here in the mountains. And I do a little work over in the radio station. But when we went ahead to do this program, it was picked up by other 160 radio stations around the country. So we're very gratified in that."

"It was all my own money. It's my project completely."

"When you look at the evidence, there are a number of very disturbing things. One: it appears to be an almost virtual certainty that more than 8 shots were fired in the hotel pantry where RFK was murdered. There is a lot of evidence to this effect. If that's the case, if more than 8 shots were fired, than someone other than Sirhan had to be firing a gun as well, because Sirhan's gun holds only 8 bullets. So when you start with the fact that more than 8 shoots were fired, and then you look in the autopsy, which appears to show that the bullet wounds in RFK come from a completely different direction than from where Sirhan was standing, then you have a very deep mystery."

"I don't believe the Sirhan Sirhan's case should be reopened in the sense that I don't trust and believe any government investigation would come to any conclusions different from the ones they have already arrived at. By the very nature, government investigations tend to be very clumsy and stupid. I believe there is a truth underneath this assassination which should be exposed by the American media which have done a very miserable job so far in this case."

"I believe that in America there are still certain things that you can't talk about in magazines, on TV and on network news. And the assassination of the Kennedy's is one of those things. The record of the media - New York Times, CBS, Washington Post, the major networks - is atrocious in regards of the assassination. They have led no major investigations for all the staff and the people they have, they have done nothing in 25 years, in 30 years since the murder of John Kennedy to uncover the truth in these cases. All the work that has been done in both the RFK assassination and the JFK assassination has been done by private citizens."

"I think what is significant here is that 25 years after the crime, a private citizen with no connections to major news organizations or access to major resources is able to travel around the country and uncovered a severe evidence of wrong-doing on a part of LAPD in the assassination of a major presidential candidate in this country. And in the 25 years no major news organisation or investigative body in this country has done so. To me that says a lot about what's going on in this country and how honest our news is and how honest our public authorities are."

"As I said, "The RFK Tapes", the program was picked up by 160 radio stations across the country which was a major victory for us, because we are a small radio station and our program was not sponsored by the NPR network. But it was picked up by 160 radio stations. In addition TIME MAGAZINE run a full-page review of the program (see below). This was the first time a major American publication or TV news network or anything has admitted that there were serious problems within the RFK assassination. After the TIME MAGAZINE article came out and the program was aired across the country, I received numerous phone calls and request for interviews. But the majority of those came from outside the country: from Japan, Saudi Arabia, Western Europe. More people were interested in other places in the world than in the US in this program."


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