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Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan & the Failure of American Justice

On 6/4/68, just after he'd declared victory in the California presidential primary over Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Captured a few feet away, gun in hand, was a young Palestinian-American named Sirhan Sirhan. The case against Sirhan was declared by the police to be "open & shut." The court proceedings against him nine months later were billed as "the trial of the century" — American justice at its fairest, swiftest & most sure. But was it? Investigative journalist William Klaber & political science professor Philip H. Melanson have spent six years examining the crime. After poring over previously secret LAPD & FBI files, interviewing scores of witnesses & investigators, & talking with Sirhan in prison, the authors conclude: Sirhan may not have acted alone, his gun may not have killed Robert Kennedy, & the police investigation & courtroom defense were deeply flawed.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 377
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-15398-4
  • EAN
  • 9780312153984
  • Characters
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan
  • Genres
  • history
  • Release date
  • 1997