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The forgotten terrorist : Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy / Mel Ayton ; foreword by Alan Dershowitz ; with a new afterword by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayton, Mel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968--Assassination.
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara, 1944-.
- Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara.
- Terrorists--Biography.
- Terrorists.
- Assassins--Biography.
- Assassins.
- California--Biography.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 374 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Robert F.Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seems like it should be an open-and-shut case.Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles's famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger.Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Time Line
- Introduction
- 1 The Ambassador Hotel
- 2 RFK and Israel
- 3 Sirhan and Palestine
- 4 The Shooting
- 5 The Trial
- 6 Controversies: The Physical Evidence
- 7 Controversies: The Witnesses
- 8 Distorted Truths
- 9 The Manchurian Candidate Assassin
- 10 Sirhan's Obsessions
- 11 The Unaffiliated Terrorist
- 12 Why did he Kill?
- Afterword
- Afterword to the Second Edition
- Appendix A: Report on RFK's Wounds by Ballistics Expert Larry Sturdivan
- Appendix B: Analysis of "The Pruszynski Tape" by Acoustics Expert Philip Harrison
- Appendix C: Review of Philip Van Praag's Declaration Regarding the Pruszynski Tape by Michael O'Dell
- Appendix D: Excerpts from Sirhan Sirhan's Notebooks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64012-201-X
- OCLC:
- 1102477909
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