Thursday
03.05.2026
6:52 p.m.,
Chicago. Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
THE MURDER OF RFK, 2025 is author Michael Calder's 3rd book. I proudly received an autographed
copy from him and almost immediately began reading it.
Here below is my email/review/thoughts to my admired, brilliant talented friend Michael Calder.
thoughts...
best...
bb.
My Thank you email and review to Michael Calder:
MC talk about digging, documentation, focus, follow-up, interviews, reading, research, study,
verification and writing style, I am amazed and impressed. Thank You as always.
The step by step totality of your exacting developments of dates, facts, locations, people, and
records is phenomenal. In 2025 I can't think of a better way to document and present the
06.05.1968 Murder/Removal of Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy, and Related Subject Matters.
Your development and use of Sequential Time Line Analyses with interconnected developments
and retracing/tracking is meaningful and powerful to those who wish to really study the entire
subject matter today, and not just read a feel good informing novel with some facts and theories
sprinkled/thrown in for some authenticity.
Arguably developed and written well enough for a First Draft Movie Script on the RFK Removal and
Related Subject Matters, very long overdue.
best...
bb.
Some of my first notes - bb - 1:
I began reading Michael Calder's third book, "THE MURDER OF RFK" last night. I have not finished
it yet but will do so today due to extremely bad weather and family matters.
This is the First Mind Blowing Fact for me that nobody, nowhere, nohow has ever discovered/presented
that I am aware of.
On page 42 MC starts digging into and developing his research into a man "named" Jerry Bruno, the
Advance Man for RFK's arrangements, details, location, planning, timing, etc., for The Embassy Ballroom
- Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, 06.04.1968. RFK was pronounced dead 06.05.1968.
Before all documentation/papers of Jerry Bruno disappeared from the JFK Presidential Library, April, May,
and June, 1968 papers of Jerry Bruno being the Advance Man for RFK were already missing/nonexistent MC
discovered through in person research at the JFK Library.
A month after MC's original inquiry a Notice was put up at the JFK Library stating that Jerry Bruno's papers
were Off Limits.
Jerry Bruno's Records, the Advance Man for RFK were Declared Off Limits. MC who was previously allowed
access to them, was now Denied - Permanently/Totally. Why ?
Michael Calder discovered/wrote that Jerry Bruno, the Advance Man for RFK in addition that "...JERRY BRUNO
WAS JFK's ADVANCE MAN AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRIP TO DALLAS INCLUDING PLANNING THE MOTORCADE
ROUTE."
How's that for buried, undiscovered Coincidences ?
I first learned of Michael Calder in 1998 reading his First Book JFK vs. CIA. In 2006 MC and I crossed paths and
became friends. I consider MC an established mentor on JFK and RFK Research/Writing and Related Subject
Matters since 1998.
Below is when we officially began documented communication. MC - Appreciation/Thanks for 27 years of
Swinging for the Fences. Nobody ever Hit a Home Run Trying to Bunt.
thoughts...
best...
bb.
Wednesday
03.22.2006
2:08 p.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
I highly recommend this author and his book:
JFK vs. C.I.A., The Central Intelligence Agency's Assassination Of The President,
by Michael Calder, 1998, printed by West LA Publishers, Los Angeles, California.
Discover:
I. Who in the Central Intelligenc Agency organized The Removal of JFK.
II. The Criminal Case against Lee Harvey Oswald.
III. The social, political and economic factors which led to the decision to
terminate JFK's Presidency and life.
IV. Step by step analysis of the conspiracy as it climaxes into treason.
"But I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for
the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands,
and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety than ever before, even in the
midst of war. God grant that my suspicions prove groundless."
Abraham Lincoln
November 21, 1863.
An excellent book by Michael Calder that the very serious Researcher, Investigator, and Writer
about JFK, C.I.A., and all related subject matters can really appreciate.
As always, I strongly recommend that you first read, research, and study material completely
yourself about a Subject Matter, and then formulate your own Opinions and Theories.
Any additional analyses, interviews, investigations, readings, research, studies, thoughts, or
writings on any aspect of this Subject Matter ?
Bear in mind that we are trying to attract and educate a Whole New Generation of JFK
Researchers who may not be as well versed as you.
Comments ?
Respectfully,
BB.
Michael Calder's response to me:
Bruce Patrick Brycheck: I've spent the last 24 or more hours thinking what to say. I'm speechless.
Not a good thing for a writer. I'm thrilled that someone "got it" and actually recommended my book.
That makes you an accessory to truth.
My goal was to preserve historical truth and give voice to JFK to what he was trying to do.
I just wanted the truth written down somewhere, anywhere and if truth seekers found it so be it.
Also, I wanted Richard Helms to know he didn't get away with it. Each passing decade, Helms
picking up the latest book on the assassination, gloating as anyone and everyone is blamed for
the assassination except the one who did it -himself. I wanted Richard Helms to pick up my book,
smirk until he got to the chapter on himself, and then have his smirk turn to shock and then to
anger as he realized he had been outed. To realize his reputation in the coming decades and
centuries would be that akin to Benedict Arnold. I wanted his ass. I got it to.
So thanks, keep swinging, keep the forces of evil off balance and know there are more of us then
there are of them.
Michael Calder www.jfkcia.com
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THE MURDER OF RFK Amazon Review by Phil Dragoo:
Saturday
05.23.2026
6:42 p.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
03.16.2025 - Phil Dragoo, a friend and a distinguished researcher, and writer about JFK, RFK, etc., and related subject matters
posted his 5 Star Review of THE MURDER OF RFK, 2025, by Michael Calder, a brilliant author, researcher, writer and friend on
Amazon.
THE MURDER OF RFK is a Masterpiece by Michael Calder.
Michael Calder and I became acquainted decades ago while he was interviewing/meeting with Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in a California
penitentiary and simultaneously I was interviewing/meeting with Jimmy Files, the confessed Grassy Knoll CIA/Chicago Outfit
assassin of JFK, at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary.
Michael Calder's efforts at documentation, in depth research and writing are phenomenal.
Among the voluminous documented facts in THE MURDER OF RFK the most interesting fact that Michael Calder unearthed to me
was that the man who planned JFK's route in Dallas, Texas also planned RFK's route in California.
thoughts...
best...
bb.
Customer Review
Phil Dragoo
5 out of 5 stars The Long Game Explained
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025
Format: Paperback
Verified Purchase
Author Michael Calder continues the focus he began with his 2000 work, JFK vs CIA, namely that an Agency program, begun
in the '50's, was central to the 1968 operation.
The reader will recall that as Nixon transferred Johnson's Director of Central Intelligence (1966) to be US ambassador to Iran,
Richard Helms ordered MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb to destroy the vast record of that twenty-year quest for a Manchurian
Candidate.
After the removal of JFK in 1963, the following year in Los Angeles an unknown named Sirhan Sirhan was being prepared as
just such a programmed assassin.
In the period prior to the removal of RFK, Sirhan would disappear from friends and family for a three-month period, a veritable
black hole of time and place unknown to Sirhan and all who knew him.
We see further signs of manipulation in the days prior to the Ambassador assassination. Sirhan is seen in the company of a taller
young man, and a young woman whose presence the fatal night was noted by a dozen or more—and concealed by police.
All eyes on the prepared patsy: Sirhan, prompted by the “girl in the polka-dot dress”, performed perfectly—and drew the attention
of most of the seventy persons present in the pantry.
Still, enough witnesses attested to a rear shooter who appeared and disappeared suddenly in the chaos, apparently abetted by a
cleverly-placed repository for the real kill weapon.
But how did the team placed in the kill alley know the candidate would transit?
Kennedy's advisers were outflanked by a mystery figure provided by the same advance man who brought another misdirector from
Oklahoma, handing off to a CIA airline CEO emeritus, all channeling the target held in place by a last-minute security guard.
Nice, nice, very nice. So many convenient persons in the same device.
Author Michael Calder presents a carefully designed plan, the long game, long in preparation; long in cover-up. The Murder of RFK
is a view from above with zoom shots of key waypoints.
The Long Game Explained
05.23.2026
6:42 p.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
03.16.2025 - Phil Dragoo, a friend and a distinguished researcher, and writer about JFK, RFK, etc., and related subject matters
posted his 5 Star Review of THE MURDER OF RFK, 2025, by Michael Calder, a brilliant author, researcher, writer and friend on
Amazon.
THE MURDER OF RFK is a Masterpiece by Michael Calder.
Michael Calder and I became acquainted decades ago while he was interviewing/meeting with Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in a California
penitentiary and simultaneously I was interviewing/meeting with Jimmy Files, the confessed Grassy Knoll CIA/Chicago Outfit
assassin of JFK, at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary.
Michael Calder's efforts at documentation, in depth research and writing are phenomenal.
Among the voluminous documented facts in THE MURDER OF RFK the most interesting fact that Michael Calder unearthed to me
was that the man who planned JFK's route in Dallas, Texas also planned RFK's route in California.
thoughts...
best...
bb.
Customer Review
Phil Dragoo
5 out of 5 stars The Long Game Explained
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2025
Format: Paperback
Verified Purchase
Author Michael Calder continues the focus he began with his 2000 work, JFK vs CIA, namely that an Agency program, begun
in the '50's, was central to the 1968 operation.
The reader will recall that as Nixon transferred Johnson's Director of Central Intelligence (1966) to be US ambassador to Iran,
Richard Helms ordered MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb to destroy the vast record of that twenty-year quest for a Manchurian
Candidate.
After the removal of JFK in 1963, the following year in Los Angeles an unknown named Sirhan Sirhan was being prepared as
just such a programmed assassin.
In the period prior to the removal of RFK, Sirhan would disappear from friends and family for a three-month period, a veritable
black hole of time and place unknown to Sirhan and all who knew him.
We see further signs of manipulation in the days prior to the Ambassador assassination. Sirhan is seen in the company of a taller
young man, and a young woman whose presence the fatal night was noted by a dozen or more—and concealed by police.
All eyes on the prepared patsy: Sirhan, prompted by the “girl in the polka-dot dress”, performed perfectly—and drew the attention
of most of the seventy persons present in the pantry.
Still, enough witnesses attested to a rear shooter who appeared and disappeared suddenly in the chaos, apparently abetted by a
cleverly-placed repository for the real kill weapon.
But how did the team placed in the kill alley know the candidate would transit?
Kennedy's advisers were outflanked by a mystery figure provided by the same advance man who brought another misdirector from
Oklahoma, handing off to a CIA airline CEO emeritus, all channeling the target held in place by a last-minute security guard.
Nice, nice, very nice. So many convenient persons in the same device.
Author Michael Calder presents a carefully designed plan, the long game, long in preparation; long in cover-up. The Murder of RFK
is a view from above with zoom shots of key waypoints.
The Long Game Explained