{"id":386600,"date":"2010-03-03T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f5d67b2970c"},"modified":"2010-03-03T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:39:30","slug":"rfks-son-slams-lapd-for-displaying-clothing-his-father-wore-when-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386600","title":{"rendered":"RFK&#8217;s son slams LAPD for displaying clothing his father wore when assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A son of Robert F. Kennedy is criticizing the Los Angeles Police Department for displaying items in a homicide exhibit in Las Vegas that included<br \/>\nthe dress shirt worn by the senator when he was assassinated in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am the son of Robert F. Kennedy, who was murdered in Los Angeles more<br \/>\nthan 40 years ago. As the child of a crime victim, I am guaranteed by<br \/>\nthe state Constitution that my family and I will be treated with respect<br \/>\n and dignity,&quot; Maxwell Taylor Kennedy wrote in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-kennedy4-2010mar04,0,7137866.story\">opinion piece for the L.A. Times.\u00a0 <\/a>&quot;Yet I was horrified to learn earlier this week that the Los Angeles<br \/>\nPolice Department had included the shirt, tie and jacket my father was<br \/>\nwearing when he was assassinated in an exhibition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chia187.org\/\">California<br \/>\nHomicide Investigators Assn. <\/a>conference in Las Vegas.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The shirt was among a number of items in the display at the conference, which is being hosted by<br \/>\nthe LAPD. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck removed the items Tuesday and issued an apology to the Kennedy family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The last thing we want to do is traumatize a victim&#8217;s family, and I<br \/>\nam very sensitive to that,&quot; Beck told The Times. &quot;But at the same time, we want to<br \/>\n preserve the history of the city of Los Angeles and improve the quality<br \/>\n and understanding about our homicide investigations.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Kennedy said he was glad the items were removed. &quot;I&#8217;m pleased he did so. But he should also remember that such items are<br \/>\npersonal property, entrusted to the state&#8217;s care, not to be exploited,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A son of Robert F. Kennedy is criticizing the Los Angeles Police Department for displaying items in a homicide exhibit in Las Vegas that included the dress shirt worn by the senator when he was assassinated in 1968. &quot;I am the son of Robert F. Kennedy, who was murdered in Los Angeles more than 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}