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Oswald didn’t go it alone, says JFK nephew

Not all the Kennedys are on board with the single-shooter theory.

Robert Kennedy Jr. says he’s convinced the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, involved more than lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.

He says his dad, Robert Kennedy Sr., who was the US Attorney General during his brother’s presidency, believed the controversial Warren Commission report on the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination in Dallas was a “shoddy piece of craftsmanship.”

Although his dad publicly supported the Warren Commission report, “privately he was dismissive of it.”

“The evidence at this point I think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman,” Kennedy told TV interviewer Charlie Rose on Friday in front of an audience at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas.

Kennedy didn’t say what he believed really happened.

Asked if his father felt “some sense of guilt” that there might have been a link between the assassination and his hard-hitting efforts to fight organized crime, Kennedy replied: “I think that’s true.”

He said his father launched his own investigation into the assassination and found that phone records of Oswald and nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who shot dead Oswald two days after the president’s assassination, “were like an inventory” of mafia leaders the government had been investigating.

He said his father, later elected US senator in New York, was “fairly convinced” that others were involved.

Five years later after the president was assassinated, Robert Kennedy Sr. was slain in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary.