Gordon Campbell died in 1962!? The pictures don't match? Hey, that's not very good journalism by the BBC. Pretty egregious actually. Seems kind of like a possible setup to me.
Anyway, I have to read/hear more about this. The pictures on the page below don't exactly show convincing non-matches for the various pictures of Morales and Joannides.
The BBC's Flawed RFK Story by Jefferson Morley and David Talbot http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_...
Shane O'Sullivan's RFK Must Die
http://www.ctka.net/shane.html
In addition to the enlargement of the quote, the photo identifications themselves are also weakened. Talbot discovered two photos of Morales, one from 1967, and one from 1969. They do not closely resemble the man alleged to be Morales in the films from the Ambassador. As for the ID's of Campbell and Johannides, O'Sullivan reveals that the LAPD identified the two men as, respectively, Michael Roman and Frank Owens. They were both executives for Bulova watch company. Although both are dead today, Roman's family concurred with the identification, and knew who Owens was. O'Sullivan tries to salvage something from this by saying that Bulova was a recipient of a large amount of Pentagon funding during the sixties. And further that its chairman, Omar Bradley, was a special adviser to Lyndon Johnson for the Vietnam War. He even reaches for the theory that Roman and Campbell may have somehow switched identities. As a fallback, salvage type operation I found this all pretty lame and unsubstantiated.
Washington Post and Salon journalists, an investigation commissioned by The New Yorker? That doesn't inspire much confidence for me. And is the article ever going to run or did it already?
BBC RFK Update
by James DiEugenio
June 2007
http://www.ctka.net/bbc_rfk.html
In David Talbot's new book Brothers he reveals that both he and Jefferson Morley of the Washington Post Online did a follow up inquiry on the Shane O'Sullivan report with the BBC. The investigation was commissioned by The New Yorker. According to Talbot's book, the pair traveled widely, "interviewing dozens of relatives, friends and former colleagues" of their principal subjects (p. 397). They discovered that Gordon Campbell "died in 1962, making it impossible for him to have been filmed in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel" (Ibid). In an interview with Rex Bradford Talbot revealed that they had also attained good photos of both Morales and Joannides taken around the 1968 time period. When they were compared to the BBC Ambassador Hotel footage, it was evident that they did not match. Or as Talbot told Bradford, "...it's simply not the man caught on camera at the Ambassador."