Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy | Shane O'Sullivan

Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy | Shane O'Sullivan | Sullivan Accounts for RFK Evidence

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	Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy Shane O'Sullivan Union Square Press, 2008 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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On June 5th, 1968, at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy celebrated his victory in the California Democratic primary with a rousing victory speech anticipating a successful run for the presidency. Moments later, gunshots shattered that dream: like his brother before him, Bobby Kennedy lay mortally wounded at the hand of an assassin. The police quickly apprehended Sirhan Sirhan, who the world believed had single-handedly masterminded the shooting. Shockingly, that may not be so, as documentary filmmaker Shane O' Sullivan presents powerful new evidence to the contrary.
In Who Killed Bobby? O'Sullivan makes a stunning case that will fundamentally alter the way the public views Bobby Kennedy's death. Based on research he undertook for a documentary that will debut this year, O'Sullivan poses such key questions as:
"Could Sirhan have fired the fatal shot?" After the autopsy LA County Coroner Thomas Noguchi concluded that the deadly shots had been fired from an inch behind Kennedy's right ear; yet not a single witness placed Sirhan this close; most placed his gun several feet away, and in front of the senator.

Who was the girl in the polka-dot dress? Vincent Di Pierro saw Sirhan with a girl in a polka-dot dress in the pantry. And Sandra Serrano described a similar woman fleeing down a fire escape, exclaiming, "We shot him! We shot him!" O'Sullivan presents new interviews with these key witnesses and details how the LAPD browbeat them into changing their stories, while investigators also insisted to the press that "no such person ever existed."
Was Sirhan an unwitting assassin operating under the direction of unseen manipulators? Sirhan repeatedly scrawled "RFK Must Die" in his notebook and recreated the same kind of automatic writing when later hypnotized by his defense team. O'Sullivan cites psychiatric evidence that Sirhan was an extremely susceptible hypnotic subject, whose behavior on the night of the shooting fit the profile of a programmed assassin. Was Sirhan programmed to be a decoy for the real killer of Bobby Kennedy?

The recent release of the film Bobby, the 40th anniversary of the shooting, and O'Sullivan's upcoming documentary have created renewed interest in the subject, and readers who accepted the conventional wisdom will have their beliefs shaken.

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Cleans the CIA-LAPD Stables; No Small Task!

I strongly recommend that readers read O'Sullivans new book, Who Killed Bobby. There is a lot of new information, not only on the new Times/ Discovery channel balistics test that argues 13 shots--Sirhan's gun had eight-- but also invaluable updated interviews with nearly all of the key witnesses to the shooting.

Also included are much greater detail, including extensive direct quotations from LAPD interviews with key witnesses. Reading these interviews gives new meaning to the phrase "leading the witness".... even while she is still plugged into the polygraph!

Also there is perhaps the best concise and pertinant overview of the CIA's Artichoke and MK-ULTRA research. This research is summarized deftly and always remains the very live third rail, running parallel to the assassination and investigation narrative. Even those wary of being labeled "conspiracists' by those employable "'leftists"" at The Nation, will be impressed by the lineup of heavily-credentialed hitters that O'Sullivan lines up to argue that Sirhan was a manipulated patsy.

This book is an invaluable service for a new generation. One cannot help wondering why this Assassination is so unfashionable, compared to others. Leads one to question the Taste Makers-- even more!

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Sullivan Accounts for RFK Evidence

As an avid researcher of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, I enjoyed Sullivan's chronology of this event and what official investigators and researchers have determined. He covers possible answers thoroughly, but I wish he would consider the idea that Sirhan fired blanks more as Sullivan acknowledges no bullet has been tied to Sirhan's gun.

Thin. Very thin.

I'm a huge fan of RFK and I am ready to be convinced that there was more to his murder than one crazed lonely man. I expected this book to provide facts to support a conspiracy theory, but with it's weak reasoning, logical flaws, repetition, poor writing, and laughable straw-grabbing, I am now convinced that Sirhan acted alone for his own demented reasons. A girl in a polka dot dress runs out yelling "We did it!"?? Yeah, all great conspiracies end with a public announcement to strangers, by the conspirators. You have Sirhan writing "It is my obsession" to kill RFK, days prior to the assassination. Sure he claims not to remember the killing - and his claim of no memory is accepted wholesale by the author here. It is a premise the author relies upon and focuses on toward the end (paying lip service to, but quickly dismissing, the thought that Sirhan is faking.) Despite his efforts to raise doubts in favor of a conspiracy, or at least a "second gun," this author has shown that such concepts are unsupported in this instance. Sirhan was a lone gunman.

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