Posts Tagged with "Sirhan"

Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”

Everybody agrees that Robert Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968, in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles. Everybody also agrees that Sirhan Sirhan was in the pantry firing a gun at the Senator. But after that, nobody agrees on much—not witnesses, not coroner Thomas Noguchi, and not the LAPD. A [...]

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“The Second Gun”

Friday, June 6, 2008

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Today is the fortieth anniversary of RFK’s being shot here in Los Angeles. (He died a day later.) Though his murder is commonly thought to be open-and-shut–”crazy Palestinian enraged over the sale of fighter jets to Israel, et cetera”–unfortunately this is not the case. While it has never taken on the Byzantine permutations of his [...]

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Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

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Lots of interesting stuff today…

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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