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Edited on Mon Nov-22-04 01:48 PM by Minstrel Boy
At his show trial, even the prosecution conceded that Sirhan had been hypnotized, and genuinely could not remember the events of the murder. The prosecution, however, claimed Sirhan had hypnotized himself.
Sirhan is still suffering hypnotic blocks on the night, and still can't remember what happened.
Sirhan's last memory of that evening is of having coffee with a woman in a polka dot dress. He was seen in her company, with another man, entering the Ambassador hotel. After the shooting, a number of witnesses saw a woman in a polka dot dress flee with a man, and separate accounts have the woman saying "We shot him! We shot Kennedy!"
The technical advisor to the original Manchurian Candidate, Dr William Joseph Bryan Jr, liked to brag about famous jobs he'd taken on for police departments and the CIA. For instance, he boasted to prostitutes about having hypnotized Albert Di Salvo, the convicted Boston Strangler, while Di Salvo was in custody. He also spoke about having worked with Sirhan. It didn't mean anything to the hookers, but the thing is, he never had access to Sirhan in custody. And here's a funny thing: in Sirhan's notebook of "automatic writing," the name "Di Salvo" is scribbled, though Sirhan claims to not recognize it. Perhaps Bryan couldn't keep from boasting of his past accomplishments, even with Sirhan under hypnosis.
RFK was shot from behind at an upwards trajectory, the gun nozzle no more than an inch from his skin. Sirhan was standing a foot to a foot and a half in front of Kennedy. Multiple witnesses saw only flashes and paper residue flying from Sirhan's gun, suggesting he was firing blanks. Many present who had heard many gunshots in their lifetimes said Sirhan's gun sounded more like a cap pistol.
In photos of RFK lying wounded on the floor, there's a clip-on tie by his outstretched hand. It's the tie of security guard Thane Eugene Caesar, who was contracted to work that night, had CIA links, and was standing at precisely the spot from where, according to the coroner, RFK's killer must have fired. Kennedy grabbed his tie and pulled it off as he fell. Caesar lied about his possession of a gun which matched the murder weapon.
Photos of the crime scene show many more bullet holes than can be accounted for by Sirhan’s gun. (The LAPD subsequently removed the wood panels and ceiling tiles and destroyed them.) Five people were shot, one twice, besides Kennedy, who himself was shot four times. To account for Sirhan hitting them all, requires several "magic" bullets with astonishing trajectories.
In his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, John Marks writes of the CIA's efforts to create a programmed killer via MKULTRA. He quotes a CIA veteran who says the program was unnecessary, as a mercenary can be found to kill anyone for a price. What is more useful is a programmed patsy. Marks writes further of a "programmed patsy":
"The purpose of this exercise is to leave a circumstantial trail that will make the authorities think the patsy committed a particular crime. The weakness might well be that the amnesia would not hold up under police interrogation, but that would not matter if the police did not believe his preposterous story about being hypnotized or if he were shot resisting arrest."
I recommend reading DiEugenio and Pease's anthology The Assassinations, and William Turner's The Assassination of Robert F Kennedy.
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