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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...
Another participant in the Politics of Conspiracy Conference was freelance journalist Ted Charach, a student of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Charach contends that, although Sirhan Sirhan did fire his gun in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel on the morning of June 5, 1968, Kennedy was in fact killed by a bullet from a second gun, placed directly in back of the Senator while Sirhan struck a pose in front of him, and with wild shots and dramatic gestures drew attention to himself. Sirhan, according to a psychiatric study done while he was in police custody, is extremely...
Charach's primary source of evidence is the report of Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi that Kennedy was killed by a gun not more than three inches from the back of his head. Not only did Sirhan fire from in front of Kennedy, but all witnesses said that he was never closer to the Senator than three feet...
Though Charach's evidence is certainly less substantive than the material in the J.F.K. case, he does show fairly well that the likelihood of Sirhan having acted alone is very small. Who was the woman in the polka-dot dress who appears in photographs of the assassination scene, and who was identified as having been seen with Sirhan earlier in the week? Who is the man who mounts the platform as Kennedy is concluding his victory speech, looks around cautiously, signals to someone in the audience, and then departs? No one in the Kennedy entourage could identify him, security around...
...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...