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Thirty-five years after he gunned down Robert F. Kennedy with a cheap pistol in
a Los Angeles hotel kitchen, Sirhan Sirhan is demanding a new trial.
The demand is not new. Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence for shooting the
New York senator, has asked for (and been denied) a retrial in the past. He has
also demanded parole and been turned down 12 times.
But now, Sirhan, 59, has found a lawyer who claims he was framed, that
evidence, including photographs of the crime scene, was destroyed by
unscrupulous police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and
Sirhan, who shot Kennedy in plain view of several witnesses, could not possibly
have fired the fatal shot.
Sirhan did fire a gun in the early hours of June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador
Hotel, where Kennedy was celebrating his win in the California primary, but he
was not conscious of what he was doing and none of his bullets killed the
senator, his lawyer says.
"Have you seen The Manchurian Candidate?" asked Lawrence Teeter in an interview
from his home in California. "It's the same thing with my client. He was the
victim of hypnotic programming."
It may seem like a bizarre defence, but it is a measure of the strange
fascination with the Kennedy assassination and other high-profile political
killings of the era -- U.S. president John F. Kennedy in 1963, black Muslim
leader Malcolm X in 1965 and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
-- that more than three decades later, the events still seem to defy resolution.
In Sirhan's case, Mr. Teeter and others claim he was the unwilling tool of some
faceless fiends in the Central Intelligence Agency or an amorphous entity they
call "the military industrial complex."
Robert Kennedy was on his way to win the leadership of the Democratic Party and
possibly the U.S. presidency. Conspiracy buffs argue his pledge to pull U.S.
forces out of Vietnam made him a "huge target."
a Los Angeles hotel kitchen, Sirhan Sirhan is demanding a new trial.
The demand is not new. Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence for shooting the
New York senator, has asked for (and been denied) a retrial in the past. He has
also demanded parole and been turned down 12 times.
But now, Sirhan, 59, has found a lawyer who claims he was framed, that
evidence, including photographs of the crime scene, was destroyed by
unscrupulous police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and
Sirhan, who shot Kennedy in plain view of several witnesses, could not possibly
have fired the fatal shot.
Sirhan did fire a gun in the early hours of June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador
Hotel, where Kennedy was celebrating his win in the California primary, but he
was not conscious of what he was doing and none of his bullets killed the
senator, his lawyer says.
"Have you seen The Manchurian Candidate?" asked Lawrence Teeter in an interview
from his home in California. "It's the same thing with my client. He was the
victim of hypnotic programming."
It may seem like a bizarre defence, but it is a measure of the strange
fascination with the Kennedy assassination and other high-profile political
killings of the era -- U.S. president John F. Kennedy in 1963, black Muslim
leader Malcolm X in 1965 and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
-- that more than three decades later, the events still seem to defy resolution.
In Sirhan's case, Mr. Teeter and others claim he was the unwilling tool of some
faceless fiends in the Central Intelligence Agency or an amorphous entity they
call "the military industrial complex."
Robert Kennedy was on his way to win the leadership of the Democratic Party and
possibly the U.S. presidency. Conspiracy buffs argue his pledge to pull U.S.
forces out of Vietnam made him a "huge target."
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The way you create Manchurian Candidates is you divide the mind. It’s part of what the Intelligence Community wanted to look at. If you’re going to get an assassin, you’re going to get somebody to go do something, you divide the mind. It fascinates me about cases like the assassination of Robert Kennedy, where Bernard Diamond, on examining Sirhan Sirhan found that he had total amnesia of the killing of Robert Kennedy, but under hypnosis could remember it. But despite suggestions he would be able to consciously remember, could not remember a thing after was out of hypnosis. I’d love to examine Sirhan Sirhan
D.Corydon Hammod PHD.