RFK2: JFK Would Have Fired Hoover In Second Term

Claims his father's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. was politically necessary

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that his uncle John F. Kennedy would have fired longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in his second term had he been reelected.

Instead, JFK would be gunned down less than a year before the 1964 election while making a political trip to Texas.

Hoover went on to play a decisive role in the subse…