" ... The official record states that senator Robert F Kennedy, like his
brother before him, was killed by a crazed lone gunman. But the
assassination of a man who seemed to embody so much hope for a
bitterly divided country embroiled in an unpopular war still troubles
this nation.
Little about the official explanation of the events at the Ambassador
Hotel on June 5 1968 makes sense. Now a new forensic analysis of the
only audio recording of the fatal shots has given new weight to a
controversial theory that there were in fact two shooters, and that
the man convicted of Kennedy's killing -- Sirhan Sirhan - did not fire
the fatal shots.
[ ... ]
"There is no doubt in our minds that no fewer than 14 shots were fired
in the pantry on that evening and that Sirhan did not in fact kill
Senator Kennedy," said Robert Joling, a forensic scientist who has
been involved with the Kennedy case for nearly 40 years. He and Van
Praag have published a book on the killing this week entitled "An Open
and Shut Case".
The inconsistencies in the case have bred numerous conspiracy
theories, including the involvement of the CIA and the idea that
Sirhan - who claims not to remember the shooting and pleaded insanity
at his trial - was a "Manchurian Candidate" assassin who was
hypnotically programmed to kill the senator. ... "
~ From The Guardian ~
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