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03007aam a2200349 i 4500 001 02390BA29C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190412t20192012dcua b 001 0beng d 020 $a 1640121749 020 $a 9781640121744 035 $a (OCoLC)1099314256 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CBY $d GSU $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a E840.8 K4 A98 2019 100 1 $a Ayton, Mel $e author. 245 14 $a The forgotten terrorist : $b Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy / $c Mel Ayton ; foreword by Alan Dershowitz ; with a new afterword by the author. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Potomac Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xvi, 374 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Originally published: 2007. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index. 505 0 $a The Ambassador Hotel -- RFK and Israel -- Sirhan and Palestine -- The shooting -- The trial -- Controversies: the physical evidence -- Controversies: the witness -- Distorted truths -- "The Manchurian candidate" assassin -- Sirhan's obsessions -- The unaffiliated terrorist -- Why did he kill? -- Afterword -- Afterword to the second edition. 520 $a Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seems like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles's famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convinced of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence. However, conspiracy theorists have jumped on inconsistencies in the eyewitness testimony and alleged anomalies in the forensic evidence to suggest that Sirhan was only one shooter in a larger conspiracy, a patsy for the real killers, or even a hypnotized assassin who did not know what he was doing (a popular plot in Cold War-era fiction, such as "The Manchurian Candidate"). The author profiles Sirhan and presents a wealth of evidence about his fanatical Palestinian nationalism and his hatred for RFK that motivated the killing. The author unearths neglected eyewitness accounts and overlooked forensic evidence and examines Sirhan's extensive personal notebooks. He revisits the trial proceedings and convincingly shows Sirhan was in fact the lone assassin whose politically motivated act was a forerunner of present-day terrorism. This second edition features a new afterword containing interviews and new evidence, as well as a new examination of the RFK assassination acoustics evidence by technical analyst Michael O'Dell. 600 10 $a Kennedy, Robert F., $d 1925-1968 $x Assassination. 600 10 $a Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara, $d 1944- 650 0 $a Assassins $v Biography. 650 0 $a Terrorists $v Biography. 700 1 $a Dershowitz, Alan M., $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011049.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02390BA29C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search