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...many as 100 people were crowded into the pantry of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, when Sirhan Bishara Sirhan fired a 22-cal. revolver at Robert F. Kennedy. No one, as far as is known to this day, observed a second assassin. An autopsy and a far-reaching investigation by the FBI and local police persuaded authorities that Sirhan was the lone killer...
...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...
...hotel security guard, Thane Eugene Cesar, was behind Kennedy, drew his gun, and at the time owned a .22-cal. revolver similar to Sirhan...
...Noguchi was reinstated. Criminalist Harper says that his studies are inaccurately represented in the film, and are not complete. Various other witnesses contend that the TV messenger was not even in the room at the time of the shooting, that Guard Cesar did not draw his gun until after Sirhan had fired his last shots, that Sirhan's gun was initially only inches from Kennedy's turned head...
Conspiratorial theories surround all the tragic assassinations of modern U.S. history. What makes The Second Gun superficially plausible is that Sirhan's trial scarcely touched on the factual conflicts raised by the film. Sirhan's defense admitted his guilt but maintained that because of his mental state he had only a "diminished responsibility" for the act. Defense Attorney Grant Cooper concedes that his cross-examination of some prosecution witnesses was therefore less than tough. "What was the sense of wasting time on these things?" he asks. There may have been no sense tactically, since there was never...