The Forgotten Terrorist

Robert F. Kennedy s assassination in 1968 seemed like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles s famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night and saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with [...]
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Robert F. Kennedy s assassination in 1968 seemed like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles s famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night and saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence. However, conspiracy theorists have jumped on inconsistencies in the eyewitness testimony and alleged anomalies in the forensic evidence to suggest that Sirhan was only one shooter in a larger conspiracy, a patsy for the real killers, or even a hypnotized assassin who did not know what he was doing (a popular plot in Cold War era fiction, such as "The Manchurian Candidate"). Mel Ayton profiles Sirhan and presents a wealth of evidence about his fanatical Palestinian nationalism and his hatred for RFK that motivated the killing. Ayton unearths neglected eyewitness accounts and overlooked forensic evidence and examines Sirhan s extensive personal notebooks. He revisits the trial proceedings and convincingly shows Sirhan was in fact the lone assassin whose politically motivated act was a forerunner of present-day terrorism. "The Forgotten Terrorist" is the definitive book on the assassination that rocked the nation during the turbulent summer of 1968.