If the US wishes to be considered an authority on democracy and human rights, it ought to come clean about the killings of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During her regular daily briefing, Zakharova was asked about the statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said Washington intends to champion human rights and fundamental freedoms in China and worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWashington itself has long fallen short of the standards of democracy that it publicly declares everywhere,\u201d Zakharova replied, adding that the US promotes \u201cpathetic, hypocritical rhetoric\u201d abroad to hide its neo-colonial ambitions and geopolitical interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe history of American politics contains many unsightly facts that are deliberately hushed up by the US authorities,\u201d Zakharova noted. As an example, she cited the Kennedy family \u2013 and the recent anniversary of the June 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, during the presidential primaries in which he was a favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The RFK assassination came two months after the fatal shooting of civil rights leader Martin Luther King \u2013 and almost five years after the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th US president, Zakharova told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI suggest to Mr. Blinken to muster up the courage and publish all the materials regarding the political assassinations of the US presidents, in particular John F. Kennedy, and tell his people \u2013 his people, first of all \u2013 the truth about what happened in Dallas and later in Chicago, at the Democratic Party Convention,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnly when they close the case on these political killings, can they try to correct other countries,\u201d the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman argued. \u201cWhile such egregious crimes remain unresolved, and the killers not found and convicted, if I were American leaders I would not open my mouth about other countries, and certainly stop lecturing everyone else how to live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RFK\u2019s son and JFK\u2019s nephew Robert Francis Kennedy Junior launched his primary challenge to President Joe Biden in April. In an interview last month, he said there was \u201coverwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved\u201d in his uncle\u2019s murder, and \u201cvery convincing but circumstantial\u201d evidence the spy agency was also linked to his father’s assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official findings of the US government, known as the Warren Commission Report, said that US Marine veteran Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and shot the president while his motorcade was passing through Dallas on November 22, 1963. Before he could stand trial, Oswald was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby at the Dallas Police Headquarters. The Warren Commission ruled that Ruby had acted alone, on impulse and out of grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ruby died in prison in 1967. Later that year, the CIA issued a directive on how to discredit \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d who doubted the official findings of the Warren Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n