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Revision as of 04:55, 3 May 2014
| Date | June 5, 1968 12:15 a.m |
|---|---|
| Location | Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles |
| Witnessed by | John Pilger |
| Interest of | Assassinationscience.com, James Douglass, HSCA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Allard Lowenstein, Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s |
| Description | The assassination of Robert Kennedy, who had resolved to bring to track down and prosecute the killers of him brother, JFK, once he had himself become president. |
Contents
Official Narrative
Sirhan Sirhan was a lone nut killer of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968.
Alternative Ideas
Second gunman theory
Mark Gorton suggests that Kennedy's actual assassin was Thane Eugene Cesar, who was dressed as a security guard, and that MKUltra subject Sirhan Sirhan was there as a patsy.
The location of Kennedy's wounds suggested that his assailant had stood behind him, but some witnesses said that Sirhan faced west as Kennedy moved through the pantry facing east.[1] This has led to the suggestion that a second gunman actually fired the fatal shot, a possibility supported by coroner Thomas Noguchi who stated that the fatal shot was behind Kennedy's right ear and had been fired at a distance of approximately one inch.[2] Other witnesses, though, said that as Sirhan approached, Kennedy was turning to his left shaking hands, facing north and so exposing his right side.[3] As recently as 2008, eyewitness John Pilger asserted his belief that there must have been a second gunman.[4]
During a re-examination of the case in 1975, the Los Angeles Superior Court ordered expert examination of the possibility of a second gun having been used, and the conclusion of the experts was that there was little or no evidence to support this theory.[3]
In 2007, analysis of an audio tape recording of the shooting made by freelance reporter Stanislaw Pruszynski indicated, according to forensic expert Philip Van Praag, that thirteen shots were fired, even though Sirhan's gun held only eight rounds.[1][5] Van Praag states that the recording also reveals at least two cases where the timing between shots was shorter than physically possible. The presence of more than eight shots on the tape was corroborated by forensic audio specialists Wes Dooley and Paul Pegas of Audio Engineering Associates in Pasadena, California, forensic audio and ballistics expert Eddy B. Brixen in Copenhagen, Denmark,[6][7] and audio specialist Phil Spencer Whitehead of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.[8] Some other acoustic experts, however, have stated that no more than eight shots were recorded on the audio tape.[9]
On February 22, 2012, Sirhan's lawyers, William Pepper and Laurie Dusek, filed a court brief in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles claiming that a second gunman fired the shots that killed Kennedy. It was the fourth and final in a series of federal briefs filed under the writ of habeas corpus by Pepper and Dusek beginning in October 2010. A ruling is now pending in the Sirhan federal case.[10]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | “After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve. A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.” | 19 January 2019 | |
| Chappaquiddick incident | “After the CIA had assassinated John F. Kennedy and framed Oswald for the assassination and after the CIA had assassinated Robert Kennedy and framed Sirhan Sirhan for the assassination, they needed a way of stopping the last Kennedy brother from ever running for the presidency of the United States. They believed that if they killed him it would look like the CIA had assassinated all the brothers so the CIA decided to allow him to live and to discredit him to stop him from being reelected by framing him at Chappaquiddick for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.” | Charles August Schlund | 10 July 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations | “I was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father.” | Robert F. Kennedy Jr |
Witnesses
| Witness | Description |
|---|---|
| Thane Eugene Cesar | The suspected assassin of RFK, an armed security guard who got the job a week earlier. |
| John Pilger | John Pilger, an Australian crusading journalist, has achieved fame in spite of a refusal to kowtow to the establishment by avoiding controversial issues. |
| Sirhan Sirhan | A patsy who was very likely MK-ultra'ed to assassinate Robert Kennedy. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State | book | 22 November 2013 | Mark Gorton | A detailed overview of the modern US deep state which names names, the most prominent of which, George H. W. Bush, is exposed as the kingpin of the US Deep state and probable a key mover behind the 9/11 plot. |
The Official Culprit
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Sirhan Sirhan | A patsy who was very likely MK-ultra'ed to assassinate Robert Kennedy. |
References
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- ↑ "Democracy Now! Special: Robert F. Kennedy's Life and Legacy 40 Years After His Assassination". democracynow.org. Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-25. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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- ↑ O'Sullivan, Shane (2008) Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert Kennedy. New York: Sterling Publishing. p. 478.
- ↑ Discovery Times (now Investigation Discovery) presents "Conspiracy Test: The RFK Assassination" (2007)
- ↑ CNN's BackStory reports on the Pruszynski recording & analysis (2009)
- ↑ Harrison, P. (2007) 'Analysis of "The Pruszynski Tape"' (report on recording of gunshots). In Ayton, M., The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Washington: Potomac Books.
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