The American people cannot trust a compromised FBI to bring this case to justice. Congress must launch an independent investigation immediately.

The FBI's boast that it captured the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, in just 33 hours fell flat with a skeptical public. Video showed the lone assassin jumping from a rooftop, but no rifle was visible. According to the official story, he concealed the weapon before jumping and fled into the woods. Soon, however, on social media, weapons experts stepped up to show and tell how it was impossible to hide the bulky rifle in a backpack or pant leg.

The story wobbled and spun. A furious debate erupted over why there appeared to be no exit wound. Kirk's doctor failed to put that controversy to rest when he confirmed the bullet never did exit the body. For skeptics, the doctor's explanation of the "miracle" strength of Kirk's bone structure, said to have stopped the bullet, called up the widely ridiculed "magic bullet" theory in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Social media posts on TikTok and X before Kirk's murder, uncovered by journalist Megyn Kelly, seemed to imply foreknowledge of the coming attack and a plot extending beyond Robinson. To the growing ranks of skeptical observers, the chaotic investigation was unfolding like a "psyop" by the FBI, designed to deceive the public by burying the truth.

History offers some credence to those doubts. In the 1960s, FBI investigations "solved" the assassinations of President Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy as lone-wolf murders; however, hotly disputed evidence left all three cases in limbo in the court of public opinion.

In the JFK assassination, eyewitnesses, ballistics, and wound analysis by doctors pointed to multiple shooters in two locations. Suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's silencing by murder when low-level mobster Jack Ruby shot him in police custody was another telltale sign of a broader conspiracy.

The bullet that killed the Reverend King couldn't be conclusively matched to the rifle of the suspected assassin, James Earl Ray, and eyewitnesses saw a second suspect in a different location.

In the RFK case, ballistics, acoustics, and other physical evidence indicated from one to five additional shots fired beyond the capacity of the gun of the suspected assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. Eyewitnesses saw activity suggesting one or more additional shooters. Ballistics and powder burns confirmed that RFK was killed by shots from behind and inches away, whereas Sirhan fired from in front and several feet away.