The sister of Ruth Paine, Sylvia Hyde Hoke, has passed on. Read more.
Author: Kennedys&King
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Author Interview: Monica Wiesak
Jeff Sachs interviews Monica Wiesak about her excellent book about JFK, America’s Last President. Read more.
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James Lawson Dies
The Rev James Lawson, one of Martin Luther King’s chief advisors on Gandhian tactics, has passed on in Los Angeles. Read more.
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Help David Talbot
David Talbot, the author of two important Kennedy assassination books (Brothers and The Devil’s Chessboard), is facing serious health issues and needs our help. A GoFundMe page has been established for him. Kennedys and King encourages readers to donate whatever is within their means.
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ACTION ALERT: The Sirhan Parole Hearing
The Sirhan Parole Hearing
Sirhan’s next parole hearing is on August 16th. His current lawyer, Angela Berry, is asking people to write the parole board. She suggests that rather than focusing on his innocence, the writer should accent his age, his record as a model prisoner, the fact prisons are overcrowded, he is not a threat to anyone at the age of 80, and the vociferous, emotional pleas of some of the next of kin should not override the law. If he is not a danger to society he should be paroled.
Letters should be mailed to:
Board of Parole Hearings
P. O. Box 4036
Sacramento CA 95812-4936
ATTN: Pre hearing correspondence
Email address is BPH.CorrespondenceUnit@cdcr.ca.gov.
Open your letter with Dear Parole Board, and ask them to parole Sirhan with, in addition to the above, the fact that he has more than served his time.
There is also a new law that says people under 26 at the time of their crime (Sirhan was 24) should have their youth weighted higher in their parole decisions. A key factor in someone getting paroled can be public interest, hence the request for our readers to write. You would be surprised how a few letters can change things. So please help
Also cc Ms. Berry, forward to angela@guardingyourrights.com
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JFK at Sixty
Download the video (mp4) here.
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UK and US accused of obstructing inquiry into 1961 death of UN chief
The US and UK have been accused by university researchers of obstructing a United Nations inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold. A conference in London heard an update from the UN assistant secretary general for legal affairs, Stephen Mathias, on progress in the inquiry, which is seeking archive documentation from member states. The participants said the US and UK had been dragging their feet in handing over potentially vital information.
Read more here. (The Guardian)
