Speech by a presidential contender is cut short by a fire alarm

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first presidential campaign speech was interrupted on Wednesday when a fire alarm was triggered. Kennedy had spoken out against the CIA and the US military-industrial complex, arguing that China had replaced the US as the preferred trading partner for much of the third world. It is unclear who set off the alarm. Kennedy's uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, had promised to "take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind" before his assassination. Kennedy believes that a second gunman was responsible for his father's death.