Who Killed Robert Kennedy? Gepubliceerd op 14 nov. 2018 Al Jazeera English Fifty years ago, United States Senator Robert F Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just moments after he’d won California’s Democratic presidential primary. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, was arrested at the scene of the shooting in what the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) thought was an open-and-shut case. Sirhan was tried and jailed for Robert Kennedy’s murder. But since the 1970s, there have been calls for a new investigation into the assassination, based on differing witness accounts, the number of shots fired and distance of Sirhan from Kennedy when he fired. “We’re trying to prove there was a travesty of justice in 1969 at Sirhan’s trial. We’re trying to prove that there was no way that he could have shot the senator, let alone have killed the senator,” says Laurie Dusek, a member of Sirhan’s defence team. Kennedy’s wounds suggest his assassin – or assassins – stood behind him, but eyewitnesses place Sirhan about a metre away and almost in front of him. This has led to suggestions that a second gunman may have fired the fatal shot, a theory … Meer lezen over Al Jazeera | Bahiya Namour – 🇺🇸 Who Killed Robert Kennedy?