Did Aristotle Onassis have Bobby Kennedy killed by a member of the PLO in October 1968 because Bobby was trying to stop his marriage to Jackie Kennedy?
The long suppressed assertion will form the basis for a new play and film, based on an overlooked 2004 book Nemesis by author Peter Evans according to the London Sunday Times.
The play “Onassis” is set to open in London on October14th and spark a new round of intrigue about who was behind the killing of Bobby Kennedy.
Evans says that he has proof that links Sirhan Sirhan to the PLO and directly to Onassis. Onassis married Jackie just four months after Bobby was gunned down in Los Angeles.
He says it was well known that Onassis hated Bobby Kennedy with a passion because Bobby was trying to stop Jackie marrying him.
He also knew that Jackie worshipped Bobby and would always depend on him for advice and that she would heed what he said about not marrying Onassis.
Enter Mahmoud Hamshari of the Palestine Liberation Organization who was seeking protection money not to hijack one of Onassis’s Olympic Airline planes.
The protection money pay out was normal at the time says writer Peter Evans to stop planes being hijacked.
Hamshari was also furious at the United States for backing Israel in the six-day war and at the Kennedys for also providing that support. He wanted to knock –off a major American figure.
Casey says he has proof that Onassis paid Hamshari $2 million to arrange to have Bobby Kennedy killed, $18 million in today’s money.
Evans says that names founding Sirhan Sirhan’s notebook after he killings are significant. There is a reference to Fiona Thysen, who was seeing Onassis’s son and to Niarchos, a reference to Onassis’s bitter Greek shipping rival.
Evans had worked on a book with Onassis starting n 1968 but Onassis pulled out of the project.
Afterwards a close friend of Onassis a lawyer named Yannis Georgakis told Evans he had “missed the real story.” and that Onassis’s daughter, Christine had told him that money paid to Hamshari had been used to finance Sirhan Sirhan’s operation.
The London play director Marc Sherman says he was persuaded by Evans book.
“I was very impressed with his sources, ” he told the London Times.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.auto117584 | Jan 02, 2011, 01:26 PM EST
I think this is part of the coup d'etat of 1963, when LBJ took over from JFK. My understanding is that JFK was resisting the super-rich elite, and they needed him out of the way. Bobby, being a clone of Jack, had to be eliminated, because he was going to win the election. The super-rich always eliminate obstacles to their get-richer schemes. In this instance, their scheme was the never-ending war in Vietnam. Sirhan was the patsy in this one, while Oswald was the patsy in the first execution. I have no evidence, but this makes sense to me.
RosemaryKelly | Oct 19, 2010, 09:23 PM EDT
I don't have any comment on this but some of the comments I read are hysterical!!!
Rebelforce | Oct 06, 2010, 05:00 PM EDT
"Most of the books that have been written about my family are bullshit." ---Ted Kennedy in his recent memoir 'True Compass'.
manhattan | Oct 06, 2010, 02:41 PM EDT
BUSH DID IT!
imanirishbuckeye | Oct 06, 2010, 12:20 PM EDT
NONE OF THE KENEDYS WERE ANY GOOD!!!! CATHOLIC ALCHOOLICS. . WE ARE BETER OFF WITHOUT THEM!!!!
CLoghry1938 | Oct 06, 2010, 09:59 AM EDT
Bobby Kennedy was shot in the wee hours of June 6,1968 right after winning the California primary election.
Sheilah | Oct 06, 2010, 09:53 AM EDT
crap journalism and comments
Celtica43 | Oct 05, 2010, 05:32 PM EDT
I read NEMESIS and think there may some truth to the theory. Book is well footnoted.
LITTLEGOAT | Oct 05, 2010, 11:47 AM EDT
regardless who did this crime it is sad a young caring man with a family was killed.
Pittsburghkid | Oct 04, 2010, 10:41 PM EDT
The IRA kill both. The money for the Irish Revolution came from Boston. The Joe Kennedy controlled the money. Churchhill wanted Northern Ireland. Henry Ford wanted to build Fords in England. The English didn't want Ford building cars in England. Henry Ford hated Irish Catholics worst then he hated Jews, but business is business. Henry Ford agreed to buy Joe's coal mines in Kentucky at a huge profit. Churchill got Northern Ireland, Ford built cars in England. Joe got rich on his coal mines, and the IRA got the shaft. In '68 Bobby was killed and the IRA reappeared. Do I have proof? No. But why were the British Royals so friendly to the money man from Boston who financed the Irish Revolution. Why did Ford let an Irish Catholic take him for $25 million? Why did the English let Ford build cars in England? Churchill arranged the whole deal. Bobby was glad to have Onassis money in the family.
dan Breen | Oct 04, 2010, 08:50 PM EDT
Who help kill the JFK investigation ? Jack ruby the jew ! Who killed RFK ? Sirhan an muslim arab !
willieboy | Oct 04, 2010, 07:30 PM EDT
Yeah! And the Queen had Diana iced for wanting to marry dodi. Get a life...
jamieLM | Oct 04, 2010, 06:56 PM EDT
Just another conspiracy theory which I believe as much as I believe in the Tooth Fairy. It sounds ridiculous. Where's the credible proof???
killowen | Oct 04, 2010, 06:16 PM EDT
No it was Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka) Jon Stewart's ilk. Read Podhartz' aricle on John John's passing such spiteful hatred diatribe on Kennedys I've ever been exposed to.
jimgordo1 | Oct 04, 2010, 05:16 PM EDT
murphy66 -- you make as much sense as the "conspiracists" who go turning over rocks to find conspiracies. bottom line -- jack ruby, oswald and sirhan sirhan were part of a grand conspiracy between the CIA, MI5, Mossad, PLO, the Shah of Iran, J. Edgar Hoover, Stalin and the japanese to exterminate the Kennedys. Hell, why not?? it's as plausible as anything that's been offered so far!
murphy66 | Oct 04, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT
John Wilkes Booth is the most likely culprit.
chesapeake | Oct 04, 2010, 04:04 PM EDT
Ridiculous. Bobby Kennedy was, in all probability, killed by organized crime interests who actually thought that he could be elected president - which is also ridiculous. He was not the cream of the Kennedy crop (although better than Teddy)who had made a lot of enemies.
olddocman | Oct 04, 2010, 02:23 PM EDT
Do not know what to make of this theory or the comments that fol0lwed it
McSpartacus | Oct 04, 2010, 01:49 PM EDT
Here's what Taki Theodoracopulous says over at Takimag.com: "The irony is that Onassis and Bobby Kennedy got on fine and liked each other. Three months before Bobby’s assassination, I was at a party given by Susan Stein in her Upper West Side flat and saw the two of them sitting side-by-side having a hoot. Bobby was asking Ari openly but jokingly for funds, and Onassis had turned his pockets inside out claiming poverty." "At the time, Ari and Jackie had been making whoopee for years. Bobby asked them not to make it official until after the ’68 election, which they agreed to do before breaking the pledge after he was murdered in June ’68." He talks about the book & play too. Worth a read.
Dublinjas | Oct 04, 2010, 01:23 PM EDT
A bunch of Gangsters killed him with the connivance of the CIA and the Mossad, Same suspects who murdered JFK. But that Wont draw advertisers to this site ...will it?. Also John Junior his wife and sister in law were also murdered.
Nicomax | Oct 04, 2010, 12:53 PM EDT
How surprised can we be as to what a short, homely man with tons of coins will do to end up with a world famous beauty?
dessieglynn | Oct 04, 2010, 12:36 PM EDT
Poor CIA. They get blamed for everything.
Phanpa043 | Oct 04, 2010, 12:35 PM EDT
interesting
benbhoy | Oct 04, 2010, 11:10 AM EDT
WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH,WE ALL KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH,ALSO HIS BROTHER JOHN.THE CIA.
JamesMurphy | Oct 04, 2010, 10:23 AM EDT
A Greek tragedy perhaps, but hardly any more believable than Britain agreeing to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens.
allanogrady | Oct 04, 2010, 10:09 AM EDT
Fascinating.. I never liked Onassis after he did dirty to the wonderful Maria Callas. So many conspiracies - Sometimes it is just better to sit in your room quietly. This theory sounds very plausible to me -- want to see the play now.
Bridgetftmyers | Oct 04, 2010, 09:03 AM EDT
WHAT'S THE POINT IN POINTING THIS OUT NOW ,THERE ALL GONE NOW !!!!!!!