Robert F Kennedy Jr Names 2nd Shooter Who Killed His Father with Sirhan Sirhan (Part 7)
What this video covers
This clip from Kennedy’s multi-part VladTV interview (November 2023) lays out his version of his father’s assassination in detail. Kennedy disputes the accepted account — that Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 killing of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, acted alone — and names the man he believes fired the fatal shots.
According to Kennedy, Sirhan did not land any of the bullets that struck his father. He asserts his father was shot four times from behind, and points to security guard Eugene Cesar — hired, Kennedy says, the day before the assassination — as the likely second shooter. Kennedy attributes to Cesar strong anti-Black and anti-Kennedy sentiments, and notes that Cesar self-identified as a CIA agent in several documents, which Kennedy presents as grounds for suspicion about agency involvement.
Kennedy leans heavily on coroner Thomas Noguchi’s autopsy — which he calls the “perfect autopsy,” noting Noguchi flew in the chief coroners of every military branch to observe — and its finding that all the fatal shots were contact shots fired from behind at an upward angle, consistent with someone standing directly behind the senator. He also describes his own attempt to interview Cesar in the Philippines before Cesar’s death: Cesar first agreed for $10,000, then raised the price to $15,000 and finally $25,000, and Kennedy walked away, convinced Cesar was “playing a game.”
Kennedy concedes in the interview that the theory cannot be definitively proven, but maintains that the evidence pointing toward a cover-up is substantial. The claim is a long-standing one for Kennedy — he has publicly questioned the Sirhan narrative since at least 2018 — and it sits at the center of his broader distrust of the intelligence agencies.
Key points
- Kennedy claims Sirhan Sirhan, though convicted, did not fire the bullets that killed his father — the central disputed assertion of the clip.
- He asserts his father was shot four times from behind, which he says is inconsistent with Sirhan’s position in front of the senator.
- Kennedy names security guard Eugene Cesar as the likely second shooter, citing Cesar’s hiring the day before and, in Kennedy’s telling, his political hostility and self-described CIA ties.
- He frames the case as a probable cover-up while acknowledging it cannot be definitively proven — a careful caveat worth noting.
- The assassination theory is inseparable from Kennedy’s wider worldview: distrust of the CIA and intelligence agencies runs through his foreign-policy and public-health arguments alike.
- This is Part 7 of a longer VladTV interview; the full conversation ranges across Kennedy’s 2024 campaign and biography.