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- Product code: 262778
- ISBN: 1597970808,
ISBN13: 9781597970808,
356 pages, paperback
Published by Potomac Books Inc, 2008
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Description of The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy |
Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seemed 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 and saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence. However, conspiracy theorists have jumped on inconsistencies in the eyewitness testimony and alleged anomalies in the forensic evidence to suggest that Sirhan was only one shooter in a larger conspiracy, a patsy for the real killers, or even a hypnotized assassin who did not know what he was doing (a popular plot in Cold War era fiction, such as The Manchurian Candidate). Mel Ayton profiles Sirhan and presents a wealth of evidence about his fanatical Palestinian nationalism and his hatred for RFK that motivated the killing. Ayton unearths neglected eyewitness accounts and overlooked forensic evidence and examines Sirhan's extensive personal notebooks. He revisits the trial proceedings and convincingly shows Sirhan was in fact the lone assassin whose politically motivated act was a forerunner of present-day terrorism. The Forgotten Terrorist is the definitive book on the assassination that rocked the nation during the turbulent summer of 1968.
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Contents of The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy |
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
APPENDIX A:
REPORT ON RFK'S WOUNDS BY BALLISTICS
EXPERT LARRY STURIDVAN
APPENDIX B:
ANALYSIS OF "THE PRUSZYNSKI TAPE" BY
ACOUSTICS EXPERT PHILIP HARRISON
APPENDIX C:
EXCERPTS FROM SIRHAN SIRHAN'S NOTEBOOKS
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About Mel Ayton |
Mel Ayton is the author of Questions of Controversy: The Kennedy Brothers, The JFK Assassination: Dispelling the Myths, and A Racial Crime: James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. He also served as historical adviser to the 2003 BBC documentary The Kennedy Dynasty. Ayton has a master’s degree in history, is a former Fulbright Teacher, deputy headmaster, and college lecturer, and lives in County Durham, England.
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