Who killed Camelot?
By David Talbot Free Press, 478 pages, $28 David Talbot, founding editor of the online magazine Salon, has written a revealing, disturbing description of John and Robert Kennedy’s “hidden history” in his bestseller, Brothers. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kennedy associates, Mr. Talbot has established the critical fact that from the afternoon of President John F. Kennedy’s murder on Nov. 22, 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy believed his brother was killed by a conspiracy. His primary suspects, based on his knowledge of their hostility to the president and himself, were the interwoven forces of the CIA, the Mafia, and anti-Castro Cuban exiles. Yet while he pursued his quiet queries into a high-level conspiracy behind the president’s death, Robert Kennedy continued to say publicly that he accepted the Warren Commission’s lone-assassin thesis. Bobby Kennedy, whom Mr. Talbot describes as “America’s first assassination conspiracy theorist,” told close friends that the only way h
