RFK Must Die is a 2007 documentary exploring conspiracy theories around the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan, whose notebook contained the words "R.F.K. must die." Through 2010 the opening noted that revisionist historians have cast him as "the first Arab terrorist." Today the phrase is gone entirely, with a word count of zero in the article. A reader today does not learn that historians have described Sirhan, RFK's killer, as "the first Arab terrorist."
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RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy is an investigative documentary by Irish writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan released in 2007.1The film expands on his earlier reports for BBC Newsnight and the Guardian and explores what really happened the night Bobby Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968.2The title comes from a page of " free writing " found in Sirhan Sirhan's notebook after the shooting, in which he wrote "R.F.K. must die - RFK must be killed Robert F.3Kennedy must be assassinated… before June 5 '68." Running on an anti-war ticket, Kennedy had just won the California Democratic primary and was confident he would challenge Nixon for the White House. As he walked through the hotel kitchen pantry, shots rang out and he fell to the floor, fatally wounded by a bullet to the brain, fired from an inch behind his right ear. 24-year old Palestinian Christian Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of murder as the "lone assassin" but witnesses placed Sirhan several feet in front of Kennedy and for forty years he claims he has never been able to remember the shooting. Diamond concluded Sirhan was in a hypnotic state at the time of the shooting and FBI agent William Bailey saw extra bullet holes in the pantry suggesting a second gunman may have been involved.4An attractive girl in a polka-dot dress was seen with Sirhan in the pantry moments before the shooting. Minutes later, a girl of similar description ran down a fire escape, past Kennedy volunteer Sandra Serrano, exclaiming "We shot him! The LAPD could not find her, so they harshly interrogated Serrano until she retracted her statement. The LAPD concluded the girl did not exist but in her first filmed interview since the night of the shooting, Sandra Serrano still sticks to her story. In his first filmed interview for almost forty years, Sirhan's younger brother Munir - Sirhan's only surviving family member - describes Sirhan's upbringing and what he perceives as the many injustices in the case. Today, Sirhan is America's last surviving political assassin, locked away in the same California prison as Charles Manson for a crime he claims he cannot remember.5Since 9-11, some revisionist historians have cast him as "the first Arab terrorist." After a three-year investigation, RFK Must Die was theatrically released in the UK on May 16 and in New York on June 5, the fortieth anniversary of the assassination.6The film's release comes as new forensic analysis of the only known audio recording of the shooting concludes there were thirteen shots fired from two guns in the Ambassador kitchen pantry and that Sirhan Sirhan's Iver Johnson revolver did not fire the bullet that killed Robert Kennedy, prompting new calls for the case to be reopened. The sound tape, known as the Pruszynski recording, is examined in RFK Must Die: Epilogue . O'Sullivan's accompanying book on the case, Who Killed Bobby? Kennedy , was published by Union Square Press on June 3.7
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2007 British film RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy is an investigative documentary by Irish writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan released in 2007. The film expands on his earlier reports for BBC Newsnight and the Guardian and explores alternative theories of what happened the night Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. The title comes from a page of " free writing " found in assassin Sirhan Sirhan 's notebook after the shooting, in which he wrote "R.F.K. must die - RFK must be killed Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated... before June 5 '68." Running on an anti-war ticket, Kennedy had just won the California Democratic primary and was confident he would challenge Richard Nixon for the White House. As he walked through the hotel kitchen pantry, shots rang out and he fell to the floor, fatally wounded by a bullet to the brain, fired from an inch behind his right ear. 24-year old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of murder as the "lone assassin." The film investigates claims that witnesses placed Sirhan several feet in front of Kennedy and for forty years he claims he has never been able to remember the shooting. Diamond testified that Sirhan was in a hypnotic state at the time of the shooting and FBI agent William Bailey saw extra bullet holes in the pantry, suggesting a second gunman may have been involved. The film features interviews with Sirhan's younger brother, Munir, where he talksa about his brother's upbringing and perceived injustices.RFK Must Die: Epilogue goes into detail about a recent audio analysis that concludes that 13 shots were fired and suggests the possibility of a second shooter.After a three-year investigation, RFK Must Die was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2008 and in New York on June 5, 2008, the fortieth anniversary of the assassination.In November 2006, BBC Television 's Newsnight aired a twelve-minute screening of the documentary.O'Sullivan stated that while researching a screenplay based on the Manchurian candidate theory for the assassination of Robert Kennedy , he "uncovered new video and photographic evidence suggesting that three senior CIA operatives were behind the killing".He claimed that three men seen in video and photographs of the Ambassador Hotel immediately before and after the assassination were positively identified as CIA operatives David Sánchez Morales , Gordon Campbell, and George Joannides .Several people who had known Morales, including family members, were adamant that he was not the man who O'Sullivan said was Morales.After O'Sullivan published his book, assassination researchers Jefferson Morley and David Talbot also discovered that Campbell had died of a heart attack in 1962, six years prior to the assassination of Kennedy.In response, O'Sullivan stated that the man on the video may have used Campbell's name as an alias.He then took his identifications to the Los Angeles Police Department whose files showed the men he identified as Campbell and Joannides to be Michael Roman and Frank Owens, two Bulova sales managers attending the company's convention in the Ambassador.O'Sullivan stood by his allegations stating that the Bulova watch company was a "well-known CIA cover".
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2007 British film RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy is an investigative documentary by Irish writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan released in 2007. The film expands on his earlier reports for BBC Newsnight and The Guardian and explores conspiracy theories of what happened the night United States Senator Robert F.Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on 5 June 1968. The title comes from a page of " free writing " found in assassin Sirhan Sirhan 's notebook after the shooting, in which he wrote "R.F.K. must die - RFK must be killed Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated... before June 5 '68."
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) 2007 British film RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy is a 2007 investigative documentary by Irish writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan .The film expands on O'Sullivan's earlier reports for BBC Newsnight and The Guardian and explores conspiracy theories related to the assassination of United States Senator Robert F.The title comes from a page of " free writing " found in assassin Sirhan Sirhan 's notebook after the shooting upon which Sirhan had written "R.F.K. must die - RFK must be killed Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated... before June 5 '68."
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