Word: sirhan
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Former congressman Allard Lowenstein last night accused California police authorities of concealing evidence about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and called for a reopening of the case against alleged assassin Sirhan Sirhan...
...bullets fired from Sirhan's gun do not match the bullet removed from the head of Senator Kennedy," he said. "It is time to take the facts of the assassination to the people of this country...
Robert Joling, president of the American Academy of Ferensic Scientists, said last night that powder marks on Kennedy's neck prove that the gun which killed Kennedy was held between one and three inches from the senator's neck. He said that witnesses say Sirhan never came within a yard of Kennedy...
...From the evidence in my possession I can not believe that any bullet fired from the gun of Sirhan could have killed Senator Kennedy," Joling said...
...Angeles district attorney's office has adamantly refused to reopen the Sirhan case despite the district attorney's personal admission that the gun which supposedly killed Kennedy had been tampered with while held as evidence...