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Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination

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An exceptional work, easily the best book on the subject available, and comprehensively researched and detailed. Instead of the usual diatribe by conspiracy buffs relying on half truths, I found it rock solid. It's hard to imagine any impartial, intelligent, logical reader concluding anything but that there was more than one gunman in the kitchen, and that the LAPD engaged in an almost wild and foolish coverup of the facts. Their blatant arrogance to this day about their handling of this case, at best preposterously incompetent, continues to infuriate and continues to cast a poor light on your average, decent LA cop who just wants to do a good job and go home at night.. A very well written, fast paced read - I couldn't put it down.

The authors provide us with what is probably the most complete investigation of the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and it is almost unbelievable at times how badly his defense team acted (or didn't act at all) on Sirhan's behalf. The description of the destruction of the evidence by the police is also something you have to read to believe. The procedures that they followed in investigating this case are suspect, and it there is so little left that it makes you wonder if there really was (dare I say it) a cover-up?

Sirhan remains an enigma, still claiming no memory of the events. The ballistic evidence contradicts that he acted alone, but with so much of the evidence missing, it is hard to make a case for his innocence. A conspiracy? A cover-up? Another case where we probably will never know the truth...

This book is well researched and well written.

It pieces together the events before and after the shooting of Robert F Kennedy.

It attempts to go into the mind of Sirhan Sirhan the "forgetful" assasin who certainly has more to him than meets the eye.

It also delves into the unfortunate and basically unlawful behaviour of the LAPD, which includes the systematic destruction of crucial evidence which points to more than one shooter in the pantry, the harrasment and intimidation of witnesses refusing to slide into the the scenario the LAPD wished to put forward.

This book unknowingly shows for me anyway, why OJ Simpson could get away with murder because of the LAPD being simply so deceitful.

Whilst the writers certainly prove that there were more than one shooter involved they do not put forward their own opinions as to who was behind the murder and for what purpose RFK's killing served and why Sirhan Sirhan was then "patsy".

However, the LAPD have a lot to answer for and until we really find out what happened this book should tide any interested person over until then.

i was kinda dissapointed in this book. the book looks awsome from the picture above, then you start reading it, and it kinda dissapoints you. the book is almost way in depth that you get lost. it mostly talks about the lawyers and how they got on, what they did during the trial, how Sirhan Sirhan can't remember jack squat from the assassaintion, and how this lawyer had another case going on and this and that. it's pretty dissapointing in my opinion. i'm gonna read it again though, more carefully. it's just that you get worn out that's all. it's like watching a 4 hour version of the movie Mars Attacks. anyway, if your'e interested in the RFK assassination, then buy the book. i just wish it would talk more about the actuall assassination that's all.

oh yeah, one more thing i can't understand at all. the book says that Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer in his opening statement says that he knows Sirhan killed RFK. but he was gonna prove that at the time he was under a transe. he was there pyshically, but not mentally. ha ha ha....a defense lawyer saying that when the evidence was clear that Bobby had a bullet hole in the back of his head when some 65+ witnesses stated that Sirhan fired from only the front. how can that be? 65+ witnesses see Sirhan fire at Bobby from the front, he's got a hole in the back of his head, nothing from the front, and the defense lawyer says his defendent is guilty of killing the would be 37th President????

alot of mystery surrounding this assassination. read the book.