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...April, during Harvard's spring break. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis. And in Los Angeles, just seven days before Lieberman graduated from Radcliffe, Robert F. Kennedy '48 was shot dead by Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel...
...images are still vivid 25 years later. The young Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, gun blazing, moving toward Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. The Senator lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the crowded hotel pantry. His ex-officio bodyguards, Olympic hero Rafer Johnson and former football star Roosevelt Grier, grabbing Sirhan. Shock -- and then grief for another American hero senselessly dead before his time...
...time there seemed little doubt that Sirhan, who detested Kennedy's pro-Israel stance, was guilty as sin. He was there; he fired at Bobby. But over the years, investigators, including police and FBI agents, have challenged the official version of events. This week more than 160 stations of the National Public Radio network will air a 60-minute documentary, The RFK Tapes, which contends that the case against Sirhan is, or ought to be, far from closed. Producer-narrator William Klaber proposes that Sirhan was a brainwashed setup for the real killer. (One oft-cited suspect, who denies involvement...
After Kennedy's victory in the primary, the senator wanted to meet with the farm workers. Ganz was leading Kennedy through the Ambassador hotel when Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan...
...fugitive with the radical Weatherman. He now lives and writes in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he is an active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has published a book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica...