R.F.K. Must Die

by Kaiser, Robert Blair

• ISBN13: 9781590201244
• ISBN10: 1590201248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-06
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

On the Night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Senator Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in the California primary for the Democratic nomination for President. Everybody knew that Sirhan was the assassin. But was there a wider conspiracy? Did the FBI truly solve the crime? After working his way deep inside the investigation-and spending more than two hundred hours in direct conversation with Sirhan-Robert Blair Kaiser wrote the quintessential book on Robert Kennedy's murder. Now, forty years after the assassination, Kaiser has rewritten his analytic epic, probing anew into one of the most mystifying tragedies of our day.

Author Biography

Robert Blair Kaiser is the author of ten books including Cardinal Mahony: A Novel, A Church in Search of Itself, and Clerical Error. In recent years, he has covered the Vatican for Newsweek, Newsday, and CBS

Table of Contents

Preface: Getting Into the Mystery	p. xi
"God! Not again!"	p. 1
"We're all puppets"	p. 33
"Tell my mother to clean up my room. It's a mess"	p. 000
"The question of a conspiracy has come up. The public, the congress and the President of the United States want to know. They have a right to know"	p. 70
"Monsters. Wickedness. Too many entanglements. Blood"	p. 97
"I didn't know he had that many children. I didn't know he had so many children"	p. 117
"With that power, I could have been a millionaire"	p. 145
"Lawyers are not magicians. We should enter a plea of guilty"	p. 158
"This is political. This is a politically motivated-this is, heh heh, political, heh heh, politically motivated"	p. 172
"Sirhan, did anybody pay you to shoot Kennedy?"	p. 188
"We're doctors, Sirhan, and we want to help you. We're Jews, Sirhan, but we want to help you"	p. 212
"You can't conscientiously ask for the death penalty, anyway"	p. 234
"Kennedy was doing a lot of things behind my back"	p. 269
"People take lives in warfare, don't they?"	p. 289
"Too illogical even for the theater of the absurd"	p. 300
"Could the nation survive two hundred assassins?"	p. 309
"He has no special claim to further preservation"	p. 331
"Robert Kennedy was a Fascist pig. Eldridge Cleaver said so"	p. 342
Epilogue: "The case is still open. I'm not rejecting the Manchurian Candidate aspect of it"	p. 354
Appendixes	p. 382
Index	p. 403
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