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The Truth About the Assassination of Bobby Kennedy in Question.

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The assassination of Bobby Kennedy occurred just after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, following a victory speech for the California Primary on June 5, 1968.

Bobby Kennedy had just spoken to an enthusiastic crowd after winning the California Presidential primary, he then exited the stage through a door that led to the hotel service hallway, which was a short cut to where the press was waiting in the nearby Colonial Room.

Shots rang out and the shooter was grabbed and pinned down against a steam table.

The shooter was later identified as Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian born in Jerusalem, who had emigrated to the United States when he was twelve.

Sirhan Sirhan could not or would not assimilate into American society.

As a poor working class immigrant, Sirhan identified with his downtrodden people living as refugees in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.

He hated U.S. culture, disliked the mores of the American people, and, most importantly, hated the support Americans gave to the state of Israel.

The period of time,1967-68, was when Israel became dominant in the mid-East after successfully defending itself against Arab aggression.

Arabs throughout the world felt powerless and weak and Arab pride had been severely damaged.

Many exiled Palestinians sought retribution and began to formulate plans to kill innocent civilians and hijack planes.

There were, however, many questions with Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and was Sirhan Sirhan really the lone gunman?

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Ten Bullets Shot, Gun Held Eight

RFK was walking towards Sirhan, his body was always facing his assassin and never got closer than three feet away.

All four shots: the fatal penetration to the brain, the shot that passed through the right shoulder pad of the Senator’s coat and two additional bullets that entered Kennedy’s body were all fired from the back and all produced powder residue patterns which indicated that they were all fired from a distance of only a few inches.

All witnesses to the assassination claim Sirhan’s gun was completely horizontal for his first two shots, after which his gun hand had been repeatedly slammed against the top of a steam table.

Yet each bullet wound had an upward angle with a trajectory close to 80 degrees.

There were five total victims and Sirhan’s gun could hold only eight bullets.

Seven bullets were removed from victims, an eighth bullet was traced through two ceilings into airspace and two more bullets were identified as lodged in the door frame of the pantry by both LAPD and FBI personnel.

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Open and Shut Case?

From the beginning, the LAPD claimed that Bobby Kennedy’s assassination was an open-and-shut case.

Numerous witnesses had seen Sirhan Sirhan fire at Kennedy. Sirhan also seemed to have a clear motive.

When he was taken into custody, the police found in his pocket a newspaper clipping criticizing RFK for opposing the Vietnam War, while favoring military aid to Israel.

A background check revealed that as a young child in Palestine, Sirhan had seen the bloodied bodies of Arabs bombed by the Israelis and his own brother was killed by an enemy truck, as it veered to avoid sniper fire.

Authorities believed that those early experiences had left Sirhan embittered against American politicians, like RFK, who supported Israel.

Even after a trial convicted Sirhan Sirhan of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and he was sentenced to life in prison, questions still remained.

The LAPD resisted further investigation of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy for years, until letter campaigns and media coverage made it politically inexpedient to keep the information secret any longer.

On April 19, 1988, the files were sent to the California State Archives in Sacramento, where researchers could evaluate the evidence for themselves.

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Cover-Up of the Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

The files made it clear that the LAPD had engaged in a massive cover-up, both during the original investigation of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and in the intervening twenty years.

The LAPD had not only attempted to misconstrue or overlook data that didn’t support their lone-assassin view, but they had actively destroyed evidence that might suggest a conspiracy.

The information that was learned by the LAPD was: The results of the 1968 test firing of Sirhan’s gun were missing.

The test gun used for ballistics comparison and identification was destroyed.

Over 90% of the audio taped witness testimony was lost or destroyed. Of the 3470 interviews the LAPD conducted, only 301 were preserved.

Key testimony of 29 witness accounts that suggested conspiracy were missing.On August 21, 1968, 2400 photographs from the original investigation were burned in the medical-waste incinerator at LA County General Hospital.

The LAPD had destroyed the ceiling tiles and doorframe wood in 1969, because they were ”too large to fit into a card file.”

The records of tests done on the door frames or ceiling tiles had also been destroyed.

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Missing Photos

Scott Enyart, an amateur photographer who’d been taking pictures the night of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and whose film had been confiscated by police, was never been given back all his photos.

His pictures, the only ones that might have captured the actual assassination were gone.

Even with the limited data that remained, there was still ample evidence to substantiate what critics had been saying all along–there was a conspiracy to kill RFK.

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Who Had a Motive?

Who hated Bobby Kennedy enough to have him murdered? RFK began to accrue enemies during his brother’s presidency, when he served as attorney general.

Both Kennedys angered some of the most powerful individuals or groups in America, including:

The Mafia, who’d been the victim of the administration’s unprecedented crackdown on organized crime. FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover had been forced by RFK to go after the Mafia.

Hoover had denied for years that organized crime existed and preferred to concentrate on eliminating ‘communists.’

Elements of the CIA, who had participated in the 1961 attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs. Moreover, Bobby Kennedy’s old enemies and several new ones had a lot to lose from his presidency.

That list included: Ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, whom RFK, as attorney general, had sent to prison for jury tampering.

If RFK became President, Hoffa would have had to serve his entire thirteen-year sentence, but President Nixon pardoned him years after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.

Right-wing and racist groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, who feared RFK’s strong commitment to civil rights. Southern California ranchers feared Kennedy’s support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union and, according to an FBI report, had once put out a $500,000 contract on RFK’s life.

Hard-line cold warriors in the military and intelligence community even the defense industry saw that an RFK presidency would create a complete reversal of U.S. policy in Vietnam.

Who was really responsible for the assassination of Bobby Kennedy?

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