The RFK Files (Book Two) A Non-Fiction book by Robert Helliger

Chapter Fifteen-RFK, Vietnam, Civil Rights, and crimes; 1961-9

~~~Quote: "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves...What is equally true...is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on", unquote, assassinated US Lawyer, Attorney-General, and civil rights advocate, Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, (November 20, 1925-June 6, 1968), unquote~~~

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Vietnam was still raging.

     It became the War that No one wanted to go to.

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The War that claimed 58,513 US soldiers' lives. The list of casualties through White, Hispanic, and African-American soldiers' in different age groups, is astronomical.

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Australian, and New Zealand, as well as UK soldiers, who allied with the US, is also high. *Australian soldiers who died from fatal wounds were: 402*, since they were in Asia from 1962-72*.

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The jungles of Vietnam were horrible. And, with the threat of napalm, soldiers suffered in intense pain. Quote: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", unquote, spouted by Robert Duvall in Coppola's 4 hour Vietnam epic, "Apocalypse Now", (filmed in 1975-77; released in 1979), is not funny. Napalm is terrifying.

      It was developed by US chemist, and Harvard Professor, Louis Frederick Fieser, (April 7, 1899 – July 25, 1977).

      *Fieser, a native of Columbus, Ohio, (Williams College), majored in the old science of chemistry, (1920), decades before forensic medicine took over thanks to books, movies, and television shows like "The Silence of the Lambs", (1991); and the "CSI" franchise in the early 00's up to 2013*. Fieser studied got his PhD under James Bryant Conant, (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978), a chemist. Conant, a Harvard Professor, was the primary US Ambassador to West Germany.

      By 1916, (during the middle of WWI), he got his  Doctor of Philosophy degree, (Harvard University)-majoring in "poisonous gases".

      By 1919, aged 26, he was Assistant Professor. He was The Professor of Organic Chemistry, (1929); he studied the effects of  chlorophyll;  chemical equilibrium;  natural products;  chemical equilibrium; and the chemical's reaction to various gases. He also studied bio-chemistry. The main subjects were: oxyhemoglobin; and  methemoglobinemia disease. By 1933, with women involved in science, he welcome the Aptitude Tests for both sexes. Then, by 1940, he joined The National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)-(1940); by 1941, he was the NDRC Chairman, aged 48.

      He then oversaw the notorious "Manhattan Project"; The Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the  Trinity nuclear test, (ABGRT)-(July 16, 1945); The Joint Research and Development Board, (JRDC); and  the General Advisory Committee, of the Atomic Energy Commission, (GACAEC).

      He died in 1978 while in a Nursing home because of a series of strokes destroyed his health. He wrote several books: The American High School Today (1959); Slums and Suburbs, (1961), The Education of American Teachers, (1963); My Several Lives, (1970-autobiography).

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By 1961, aged 36,  at The University of Georgia Law School, RFK stood up on the stage, grabbed a microphone, and spoke to the huge crowd of Southern students:

      Quote: "We will not stand by or be aloof; we will move...I happen to believe that The 1954 decision, was right. But my belief does not matter. It is now the law. Some of you may believe the decision was wrong. That does not matter. It is the law", unquote.

By 1963, (the year of JFK's assassination, RFK disagreed with J Edgar Hoover's assertion that The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was, quote, "an upstart troublemaker...and an Enemy of the State"), unquote.

       This proved that J Edgar was racist. The Reverend was African-American. And, despite progress between black America and white America, in the mid 1960's, attitudes of race, religion, and peace was a false belief; peace was caused by the emerging hippie movement. And, in the Age of LSD, and The Beatles, Elvis, and The Beach Boys, the psychedelic "Free Love" of the decade was also fuelled by violence by, quote, "Disaffected psychotic killers", unquote, who had had exotic names like The Zodiac Killer Arthur Leigh Allen; Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, "The Moors child murderers" in England; The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo; Charles Whitman; and Charles Manson, the failed folk singer, and cult leader of "The Family", who snuffed out a pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the then wife of director Roman Polanski in August, 1969, and others, to end the decade in blood.

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