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...attempts to snuff out his life within three weeks. Moore and Fromme added to the modern chain of Bremer, Ray, Sirhan, Oswald?all tormented Americans driven to try to kill a public figure. It is a chain with links in U.S. life that reach all the way back to Richard Lawrence, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth, who did kill Abraham Lincoln, the first President to be assassinated. Inevitably, the question arises: Is there something wrong with American society? Why does America seem to have so many kooks willing to kill to exorcise some private demon...
...would turn few heads on the street. But the 27-year-old woman behind this innocent facade was anything but normal. In her way, Lynette Fromme was as much a social aberration−an amoral freak−as Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, or Sirhan Sirhan, who shot to death Robert F. Kennedy, or Arthur Bremer, who crippled Alabama Governor George Wallace. She had been−and still was−an ardent follower of Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer who is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment for committing seven murders, including the vicious slaughters...
There were eight witnesses who saw Sirhan Bishara Sirhan shoot the New York Senator, and there was little dispute at the time over his sentence to life imprisonment. Since then, however, a number of ballistics experts have found discrepancies between a bullet that struck Kennedy in the neck and the bullet that hit Bystander William Weisel in the stomach. Another bullet fired in the attack wounded Paul Schrade, a former United Autoworkers official and Kennedy aide. Although he does not support any conspiracy theory, Schrade has tried for more than a year to get the case reopened to remove...
...markings of two of the bullets fired that day. The academy urged that the case be reopened. In fact, District Attorney Joseph P. Busch had been considering ways to reopen the investigation, but Busch died on June 27. His successor, Acting District Attorney John Howard, had prosecuted Sirhan and had no doubt that he had acted alone. Nonetheless, the supervisors ignored Howard's opposition and urged that the evidence be restudied. Explained Chairman James Hayes: "This whole subject has been kicked around for several years now. If it could be openly reassessed in some proper form, it would...
...Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Wenke last week agreed to a re-firing of the Sirhan gun by ballistics experts. He directed that lawyers decide by Sept. 11 which ballistics expert should handle the matter and what procedures should be followed. Sirhan's attorney, Godfrey Isaac, was delighted by Wenke's order ("I know that Sirhan's in his cell jumping up and down for joy"), but most experts who have followed the case do not expect the re-examination to change the original verdict. They believe that it will simply confirm Sirhan as the sole assassin...