THE RFK CONSPIRACY
by Zina Saunders.

The unholy trinity of 60's assassinations began with John F. Kennedy, continued with Martin Luther King, and culminated in THE RFK CONSPIRACY.

Referring to the decade's first assassination, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy said: '...only the powers of the presidency will reveal the secrets of my brother's death.' Two night's later, rather than exposing JFK's fate, he shared it. A liberal who had prosecuted organized crime and angered the CIA and FBI, Kennedy's candidacy was most favored by youth and minorities. After winning the California primary on June 5th, RFK addressed nearly 2000 supporters in the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel's ballroom. Bobby might soon have become the second Kennedy to occupy the White House if not for what happened next. Scheduled to meet with reporters in another ballroom, RFK took a fatefull 'back route'. As he moved through the crowded kitchen pantry shaking hands with busboys, someone shouted 'here he comes!' and a 24-year-old palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Bishara Sirhan surged forward firing a .22 caliber handgun. Six people were wounded, RFK fatally, before Sirhan was wrestled into submission over a steam table. The subduers were amazed by the strength and 'calm ferocity' exhibited by the short, slender gunman who was swiftly pronounced the 'lone nut assassin.' At RFK's autopsy, however, forensic evidence proved he had been shot from the rear at point-blank range while Karl Vecker, who had been if front of RFK and was the first to grab Sirhan's arm, stated: 'Sirhan never got closer than two or three feet to the front and maybe the side of Kennedy.' L.A. Coroner Thomas Noguchi performed meticulous firing tests with sow's ears matchingthe amount of gunpowder soot in RFK's hair and carbon 'tattooing' on his ear at a distance of one to three inches. Doubting the official version of the assassination (nearly at the cost of his job), Noguchi has said: 'Bullets do not go in circles. There may be more to this story than we know.' Noguchi's colleague, forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht unequivocally insists: 'It was not Sirhan Sirhan who killed Senator Robert Kennedy.' As a matter of fact, there was at least one other gun in that pantry belonging to Thaneœ Eugene Cesar, a right [1] wing rent-a-cop security guard who hated the Kennedy's. Cesar admitted drawing his gun during the assassination as he stood within inches of RFK's right-rear. Although Cesar's story has changed on other points, he has always said he doesn't know how he lost his clip-on-tie - seen in news photos next to the dying Senator. Cesar says the gun he drew was a .38, but admits to once owning a .22 - which he claims he sold prior to the assassination. This receipt, however, is dated three months after the assassination. Cesar himself wrote and signed it. While the fatal bullet was never linked to Sirman's gun, the LAPD failed to examine any of Thane Cesar's guns thus ignoring the possibility that Sirhan was a decoy, drawing attention away from a possible second gunman. After the forensic evidence demanded such a scenario, the LAPD not only refused to investigate it, but actively tried to debunk it. The .22 pistol Cesar sold to Jim Yolder was stolen shortly after LAPD finally queriedabout it making its current whereabouts, if it still exists, unknown.

Sirhan admitted he 'must have done it', but has no memory of firing a gun in that pantry. Indeed, police, reporters, and other witnesses all remarked on his 'trancelike state' before, during, and after the shooting. Hypnotist William J. Bryan Jr., (who allegedly did work for the CIA) bragged about hypnotizing Sirhan prior to the assassination.

This composite of phrases from Sirhan's notebooks shows the characteristic 'automatic writing' of a hypnotically programmed subject and even refers to 'mind control'. Strangely - or perhaps not so strangely - it also includes references to money, drugs, and such occult secret societies as the illuminati, the rosicrucians, and the offshoot AMORC. Kennedy volunteer Sandra Serrano reported seeing Sirhan, accompanied by another 'latin' young man and a girl in a polka-dot dress, ascend an emergency stairway some 45 minutes prior to the assassination. Others saw Sirhan loitering by a coffee machine inside the hotel, where a 'well-built' girl with an 'odd nose' wearing a polka-dot dress whispered to him after which Sirhan strangely alternated between tranquil and fidgety states. Immediately after œthe shooting Serrano again saw the polka-dot girl and one male companion (but not Sirhan) rushing down the same stairs. Others witnessing the same incident described the girl as 'gleeful.' When prosecution phychiatrist Seymour Pollack asked a hypnotized Sirhan (in his jail cell) if anyone was with him when he shot at Kennedy, Sirhan responded: 'Girl, the girl, the girl...' Sirhan's attorney Grant Cooper ignored all these other points. Sirhan was convicted asthe sole assassin. But there's even more evidence of at least one other gun and therefore a conspiracy - and this evidence wasn't just ignored, it was covered up. Sirhan's gun held a maximum of eight bullets, accounted for by RFK's three wounds and the five wounded by standers not to mention all the other bullet holes in the pantry ceiling tiles, door frame, jamb, hinge, and divider post. Analyzing news-media audio recordings, Michael Hecker of the Stanford Research Institute concluded: 'no fewer than ten gunshots are ascertainable.' (and Hecker believed 'there were more than ten.) Based on all the evidence, researcher Theodore Charach comes up with this count: 'all in all, twelve shots were fired - four more than were possible from Sirhan's eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 revolver.' And what happened to all those bullet riddled ceiling tiles and door etceteras? They were removed from the hotel pantry and 'later destroyed'. Also destroyed by the crack LAPD: results of tests firings with Sirhan's gun, a similar gun used for ballistics comparison, more than 90% of the audiotaped witness testimony, and 2400 investigation photographs! So much for 'avoiding another Dallas' - but Sirhan's gun obviously fired some of the bullets recovered from that pantry - and here's what gunshop owner Ben Herrick had to say about those bullets and [1] their buyers: 'Sure, Sirhan had accomplices when they bought those damn bullets... and the LAPD bought up every batch after the assassination.' After questioning an elderly couple who confirmed Sandra Serrano's stairway story, LAPD officer Paul Sharaga put out an APB for the girl in the polka-dot dress. It was quickly canceled - and Sharaga's notes 'vanished'. Witness Serrano fared even worse when 'questioned' by LAPD polygraph operator Sgt. Enrique Hernandez:'There was no polka-dot dress and you know it! It's a pack of lies!' Other witnesses cite similar harassment and intimidation by Hernandez and Lt. Manuel Pena, both of whom had worked for the Agency for International Development, a cover for clandestine CIA operations.

LAPD criminalist Dewayne Wolfer testified that bullets taken from RFK and two other pantry victims came from Sirhan's gun - and no other gun in the world! The serial number of the gun test-fired to reach this conclusion, however, matched a weapon seized by LAPD months before the assassination - and not Sirhan's gun. And why couldn't this discrepancy be resolved? LAPD destroyed the gun. First John, then Bobby, leaving third Kennedy Ted to wonder what was going on...
Indeed, Teddy had an excellent shot at the White House himself until Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in his car off the Chappaquiddick Bridge, leading most to charge a cover-up by Teddy himself - while only a few suspected a conspiracy to 'eliminate' him from the presidency before the fact. A third 'lone nut assassin' might have been too much for anyone to swallow especially when a dirty-tricks 'scandal' would work as well. But getting back to Bobby, remember that as a team he and JFK had enraged all the same likely suspects - CIA, FBI, Cuban exiles, right-wing extremists, and the mob. Calling Bobby the 'tail of the dog', mobster Carlos Marcello vowed revenge on RFK by hitting JFK. Prophetically, RFK's effectiveness as attorney general plunged after 11/22/63, as did prosecution of organized crime. But in 1968, the 'tail' was making a strong bid to become the 'head' - until he was cut down on the night of his greatest victory ensuring a win for the man (Nixon) whom his brother John had beaten in 1960 the same man who would be re-elected in 1972 after Arthur Bremer shot down George Wallace and prevented McGovern from winning a three-way race.