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, detailing RFK’s murder, as well as FTR #582, 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.)
In papers recently filed by his lawyers, Sirhan relates the story 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.
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. . . .
I recently listened to AFA #9. Wow! The more I learn the more I feel like a babe in the woods. As someone who is new to most of this material, I would solicit the opinion of anyone who can comment on the Waldren/Hartmann books (Ultimate Sacrifice & Legacy of Sercrecy) where primary emphasis is placed on Marcello and the mob. In Ultimate Sacrifice, for instance, people like Thane Cesar and Jerry Owen are barely mentioned. What accounts for this absence? Is it just a matter of emphasis? Is the modified-limited-hangout dynamic at play, consciously, or unconsciously? (It’s politically safe to blame The Mob, and if it comes down to it, maybe just as safe to blame ‘rogue’ CIA.) Is it simply that the historical models that Dave is using are too obscured to break through to mainstream reportage? I probably just answered my own question.
Nevertheless, I’d like to hear others comment on this subject. Thanks.
Wow. The implications are huge.
If a serious buzz starts about this, the media won’t be able to ignore it....
A gaping hole in the armor.
It sounds like it was was quite an eventful day in the courtroom:
-Tried to put this under a “programmed assassin” category, as in “Those voices in your head”-
Two articles about bone conduction and “voice to skull” technology. The first one is about the use on German trains, and the link includes a creepy video ad about the technology. The second article is one I found in 2007 about the same technology:
Sky Deutschland to broadcast adverts directly into train passengers’ heads
Sky Deutschland has developed technology to transfer adverts from train windows directly and silently into commuters’ heads.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/10158311/Sky-Deutschland-to-broadcast-adverts-directly-into-train-passengers-heads.html
Passengers leaning their head against the window will “hear” adverts “coming from inside the user’s head”, urging them to download the Sky Go app.
The proposal involves using bone conduction technology, which is used in hearing aids, headphones and Google’s Glass headset, to pass sound to the inner ear via vibrations through the skull.
A video for the Talking Window campaign released by Sky Deutschland and ad agency BBDO Germany states: “Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows. Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No one else can hear this message.”
The voice comes from a Sky-branded transmitter made by Audiva that is attached to the train window.
BBDO spokesman Ulf Brychcy told the BBC: “If our customer Sky Deutschland agrees, we will start with the new medium as quickly as possible.
“Some people don’t like advertising in general. But this is really a new technology. [It might] not only be used for advertising, but also for music, entertainment, mass transport information, weather reports and so on.”
Sky Deutschland said it had not made a decision on whether to launch the campaign.
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Voice to Skull Technology in New York
December 12th, 2007
Via: AdAge:
New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman’s voice right in her ear asking, “Who’s there? Who’s there?” She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, “It’s not your imagination.”
Indeed it isn’t. It’s an ad for “Paranormal State,” a ghost-themed series premiering on A&E this week. The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an “audio spotlight” from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium. The technology, ideal for museums and libraries or environments that require a quiet atmosphere for isolated audio slideshows, has rarely been used on such a scale before. For random passersby and residents who have to walk unwittingly through the area where the voice will penetrate their inner peace, it’s another story.
Ms. Wilson, a New York-based stylist, said she expected the voice inside her head to be some type of creative project but could see how others might perceive it differently, particularly on a late-night stroll home. “I might be a little freaked out, and I wouldn’t necessarily think it’s coming from that billboard,” she said.
Joe Pompei, president and founder of Holosonics, said the creepy approach is key to drawing attention to A&E’s show. But, he noted, the technology was designed to avoid adding to noise pollution. “If you really want to annoy a lot of people, a loudspeaker is the best way to do it,” he said. “If you set up a loudspeaker on the top of a building, everybody’s going to hear that noise. But if you’re only directing that sound to a specific viewer, you’re never going to hear a neighbor complaint from street vendors or pedestrians. The whole idea is to spare other people.”
Holosonics has partnered with a cable network once before, when Court TV implemented the technology to promote its “Mystery Whisperer” in the mystery sections of select bookstores. Mr. Pompei said the company also has tested retail deployments in grocery stores with Procter & Gamble and Kraft for customized audio messaging. So a customer, for example, looking to buy laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience.
Mr. Pompei contends that the technology will take time for consumers to get used to, much like the lights on digital signage and illuminated billboards did when they were first used. The website Gawker posted an item about the billboard last week with the headline “Schizophrenia is the new ad gimmick,” and asked “How soon will it be until in addition to the do-not-call list, we’ll have a ‘do not beam commercial messages into my head’ list?”
“There’s going to be a certain population sensitive to it. But once people see what it does and hear for themselves, they’ll see it’s effective for getting attention,” Mr. Pompei said.
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You can bet that if it is being used commercially right now, it was used “covertly” in the past.
@SWAMP–
Sweet Creeping Jesus, that is depressing, although in tempo with applied technologies that can double as mind control.
I guess we might call this “Skull and Tones”!
Best,
Dave