Word: sirhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many as 100 people were crowded into the pantry of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, when Sirhan Bishara Sirhan fired a 22-cal. revolver at Robert F. Kennedy. No one, as far as is known to this day, observed a second assassin. An autopsy and a far-reaching investigation by the FBI and local police persuaded authorities that Sirhan was the lone killer...
...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...
...three bullets that hit Kennedy, including the one that entered his head, were fired from behind; witnesses have testified, however, that Sirhan was standing in front of Kennedy...
...angle at which the bullets entered Kennedy's body suggests that the assassin fired from the floor, though witnesses say that Sirhan was standing...
...Angeles County Medical Examiner Thomas Noguchi, who performed the autopsy, testified at the Ward inquiry that the fatal slug was fired from only inches away; yet Sirhan was at least 2 to 3 ft. away from Kennedy...