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The Law: A Second Sir-Han?

Eight eyewitnesses say that they saw Sirhan Bishara Sirhan assassinate Robert F. Kennedy in the jammed serving pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, who was killed before he could be tried, or James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty before being brought before a jury of his peers, Sirhan was given a lengthy public trial and was convicted of murder in the first degree. Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that Sirhan acted alone, a 110-minute accusatorial documentary film that opened in New York last week suggests that there was a second gunman...

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