The Killing of RFK, by Donald Freed

The Killing of RFK, by Donald Freed. 1975 first printing paperback. 224 pages, very nice condition.

A deeply disturbing account of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Beyond the latest CIA revelations! A riveting drama more socking and terrifying than any fiction could be! John Kennedy was dead – but the men who killed him knew that their work was not finished. For now, in 1968, Robert Kennedy was heading for the presidency – and Robert Kennedy was the one man they could not afford to have in the Executive Office. Who were these men? How did they find the assassin they needed, recruit him, train him, use him, and make sure he could not hurt them? Now at last you can watch the truth unfold with the spellbinding power of dramatic recreation and the shattering impact of freshly exposed fact. The book claims that it is “Soon to be a hotly controversial major motion picture,” but I don’t believe that happened…but his novel Executive Action, about the assassination of JFK was made into a film in 1973.

Donald Freed was a member of the Friends of the Panthers, a group of white supporters of the Black Panther movement. He was a close friend of Huey Percy Newton, a political activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party. Freed acted as one of the unofficial historians of the Black Panther Party. He wrote books about the CIA’s involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier, OJ Simpson, and was contacted by Jim Jones, who wanted him and civil attorney Mark Lane to uncover alleged plots by intelligence agencies against the Temple…This was one month before the mass suicide.