This updated edition for the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s murder explores ignored witness accounts, coerced testimony, bullet-hole evidence, and other issues surrounding the political homicide, and is the basis for the new podcast, The RFK Tapes, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes chart, available now.
On June 4, 1968, just after he had declared victory in the California presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Captured a few feet away, gun in hand, was a young Palestinian-American named Sirhan Sirhan. The case against Sirhan was declared “open and shut” and the court proceedings against him were billed as “the trial of the century”; American justice at its fairest and most sure. But was it? By careful examination of the police files, hidden for twenty years, William Klaber and Philip Melanson's Shadow Play explores the chilling significance of altered evidence, ignored witnesses, and coerced testimony. It challenges the official assumptions and conclusions about this most troubling, and perhaps still unsolved, political murder.

Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy (Revised and Updated Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Klaber, William

Melanson, Philip

Historical

St. Martin's: Griffin

Melanson draws on intelligence community sources and interviews with key witnesses (including James Earl Ray) to point out glaring oversights and illogical conclusions in the official explanation of King's assassination.

Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The Real Story Series)

History

Americas

Odonian Press

Destruction of key evidence by the Los Angeles police, intimidation of witnesses by CIA operatives, and the escape of the "woman in the polka-dot dress," are all crucial elements in the author's argument that Sirhan Sirhan could not have been the only shooter.

Who Killed Robert Kennedy? (The Real Story Series)

Odonian Pr

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