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Inside the Hive

Did RFK’s Assasination Pave the Way for Trump?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On the face of it, it seems like America is currently more divided than anytime since the Civil War. But back in 1968, America was embroiled in chaos, torn over the war in Vietnam, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and later, the murder of Robert Kennedy, the brother of JFK. Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier, the team behind Crimetown and The Jinx, join Nick to explain how the murder of RFK, in 1968, might have been a government conspiracy, and why it changed the shape of America forever. Also: Vanity Fair’s Abby Tracy explains what’s going to happen with Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court pick, and what the Democrats can do to stop the court from overturn Roe vs Wade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is your host Nick Bilton. So I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you believe the listener that America is more divided today than it ever has been before, of course beyond the Civil War.

0:15.2

But that's actually not true.

0:17.4

There was a point when the country was more tumultuous, more divided, and even more embroiled in in chaos and that was in 1968. In the first

0:26.3

few months of 1968 alone the country was at war in Vietnam President Johnson

0:31.6

said he would not run for re-election, which of course threw the Democratic

0:34.8

Party into complete commult and chaos.

0:38.0

Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

0:40.1

There was racial disturbances and protests all across the country, and to top it all off. there was

0:44.0

racial disturbances and protests all across the country and to top it all off,

0:45.3

Robert Kennedy, the brother of JFK, was assassinated right here in Los Angeles

0:50.2

while he was running for president.

0:51.8

Unlike JFK's assassination, it seemed like this was an open and shut case, the murder of RFK,

0:58.0

that one man with one gun killed Robert Kennedy.

1:02.0

But my guest today, Mark Smirling and with one gun killed Robert Kennedy.

1:02.8

But my guest today, Mark Smirling and

1:05.0

Zach Stewart Pontier, the team behind the Jinx documentary

1:08.7

and the podcast Crimetown, are here today

1:11.4

to tell us that there could be something more to the murder of

1:14.4

RFK. There could have actually been a big government conspiracy to kill Robert

1:19.6

Kennedy involving mind control, a woman in a polka-dot dress, and a massive police cover-up.

1:26.0

Before Mark and Zach join me on the show today, I'm going to do a little inside, inside, inside the hive, and invite Abby Tracy onto the show for a quick 15 minute

1:36.0

discussion about Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court.

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