ASIN: B08KHKD62C
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 394
Longlisted for the People's Book Prize 2018. At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A little over 24 hours later, he was pronounced dead. A 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was captured in the pantry with a smoking gun in his hand. Eyewitnesses had seen him step out in front of Kennedy and begin shooting with a small calibre revolver. In April 1969, Sirhan was convicted of Robert Kennedy’s murder and the wounding of five others. He was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. He has been in prison – often in solitary confinement – ever since. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is the result of more than 25 years’ painstaking forensic work that challenges some of the assumptions and conclusions around the murder. The ...
