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...apotheosis of the Kennedy family has created whole new categories of national history, mythology and gossip. It started with Jack's rise to the presidency, and his death by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. It became even more tragic as Bobby reached for his brother's mantle, only to be cut down himself. It continued with the agonizing trial and conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby's assassin. It promises to grow with the senatorial prominence and presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy...
...Nashville, 300 militant mourners marched up to the walls of Tennessee's state penitentiary to chant We Shall Overcome just out of earshot of King's assassin, James Earl Ray, who is in solitary confinement inside a maximum-security cellblock...
...millions pausing before their television sets to watch a hero laid to rest. To a nation that has lately witnessed all too many such occasions, the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower had a significant difference. It was not an occasion for grief over a life tragically foreshortened by an assassin's bullet but an opportunity to pay homage to one who had served his country and had died in peace, his work completed...
Gasping for Breath. Sirhan professes that he has no recollection of shooting Kennedy last June. However, Diamond was able to make the assassin relive the killing in his prison cell six months later by hypnotizing him with a coin held eight inches from his eyes. "Sirhan simply pulled an imaginary gun out of his belt," Diamond recounted to the court, "and fired it convulsively again and again and shouted out: 'You son of a bitch...
...grave mental disorders, avuncular Attorney Grant Cooper rested for the defense. And though a handwriting expert called by the prosecution saw no evidence that Sirhan's diary had been written under the mirror's hypnotic influence, even the star rebuttal witness, Psychiatrist Seymour Pollack, told of the assassin's "paranoid personality." Pollack, however, asserted that the assassination of Kennedy was "triggered by political reasons with which he [Sirhan] was highly emotionally charged." Altogether, as the trial enters its final stages this week, the prosecution faces an uphill struggle to refute contentions that Sirhan was either insane...