COMMENT: Attorneys for Sirhan Sirhan have moved to reopen his case, contending (among other things) that a bullet was switched at his trial, invalidating his conviction.
Earlier this year, Sirhan’s defense team reinforced the “girl in the polka-dot dress” anecdotal information following a hypnosis session with their client.
Anyone familiar with the facts of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination knows that the official version of Sirhan Sirhan as a “lone nut” assassin is untenable. (Listeners are invited to examine AFA #9 [1], detailing RFK’s murder, as well as FTR #582 [2], supplementing that analysis.)
Investigators have long believed that Sirhan was a victim of mind control, and that a mysterious woman in a polka-dot dress was involved in the killing, possibly as a “handler” of Sirhan. (The woman was seen and heard running from the Ambassador Hotel claiming that “we” had shot Kennedy. The mind control aspects of the RFK assassination are discussed in AFA #6 [3].)
In papers recently filed by his lawyers, Sirhan relates the story [4] of the “girl in the polka-dot dress” and also (under hypnosis) recalled seeing the flash of a second gun.
“Sirhan Sirhan, Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, Launches New Campaign for Freedom 42 Years Later” by Jacqui Goddard; The Telegraph [UK]; 12/03/2011. [5]
EXCERPT: Lawyers for Robert F Kennedy’s killer Sirhan Sirhan claim to have new evidence that will free him from prison, 42 years after he was jailed for assassinating the US senator.
They say the new material hands them “game, set and match” in their campaign to release him from the life sentence he was given on being convicted for gunning down the senator at a California hotel.
They have launched a fresh appeal on behalf of Sirhan, 67, claiming in court for the first time that prosecutors fabricated ballistics evidence against him at trial, switching a bullet that was taken from the dead senator’s neck for one that they claimed matched the defendant’s gun.
Lawyers also seek a re-examination of claims that Sirhan was framed by shadowy agents — indirectly suggested as being the CIA — who they say “hypno-programmed” him into taking part in the shooting to divert attention from their own fatal gunfire.
Court documents filed in federal court in Los Angeles now pull together years of research, evidentiary documents and psychological analyses of Sirhan for a case that his lawyer says proves him as a victim of “an egregious miscarriage of justice” and “horrendous violations” of his legal rights.
“On the law, and on the evidence, it’s game set and match to us. It’s all over,” Dr William Pepper told The Sunday Telegraph.
“But we are dealing with a high profile political assassination that involves the government and government agencies and a cover-up for 43 years, So I’m not confident that we are going to overcome the politics, but I’m confident that they have got to give us an evidentiary hearing and put all this under oath in a court of law, which has never happened.”
Senator Kennedy died on June 6, 1968, one day after the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had been celebrating victory in the California primary of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He had just delivered his victory address in the ballroom and was taking a short cut out of the hotel through the crowded kitchen when Sirhan stepped forward and opened fire.
The senator’s loss altered the course of American politics and sent shock waves through a country still coming to terms with the assassination four and a half years earlier of his brother, President John F Kennedy, by political malcontent Lee Harvey Oswald. . . .