Nearly all books on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination reference the critically important witness Sandra Serrano, who testified that she saw a girl in a polka-dotted dress accompanying two men (one of them believed to be Sirhan B. Sirhan) into the Ambassador shortly before RFK was shot, and again running from the scene with the "other man" immediately afterwards. This inconvenient evidence quickly became a "hot potato" that the FBI and LAPD did their utmost to ignore . . . as did Sirhan's "defense" team, not to mention the prosecutors, who, along with the judge, was intent on seeing Sirhan on death row (which they succeeded at initially, until California outlawed the death penalty).
The ferocity of the prosecution came despite the stunning exculpatory evidence furnished by the coroner, who essentially stated that Sirhan could not have possibly shot the bullet that killed RFK, given that it was fired inches behind his head, whereas Sirhan was never closer than about three feet in front of him (a fact that seemed to embarrass the defense attorneys, who did all they could to ignore it). It seems that the only people who were ever interested in Sandra Serrano's story were those latter-day authors, as they attempted to ferret out as much information on this important lead as possible, always impeded by the dearth of information about who this woman was.
That impediment has now been significantly reduced, thanks to Fernando Faura's new book, The Polka Dot File on the Robert F. Kennedy Killing: The Paris Peace Talks Connection" which goes further than any other book to examine this missing piece of the puzzle; moreover, it provides important ancillary information on many related aspects as well. Faura is uniquely qualified to do so because he, nearly single-handedly, had diligently pursued this lead within days of the assassination, as a reporter for a small LA newspaper. As he explains in the Preface, "Here is the day-to-day account of my hunt for the mystery woman. The story here is a firsthand narrative of my personal, detailed investigation, recorded as it happened. It includes actual, accurate transcripts of interviews I conducted before the police or the FBI intimidated the witnesses into changing their stories. FBI and Los Angeles police records clearly show that my investigation was more advanced than theirs. 'The girl in the polka-dot dress' remains a mystery today. Yet many know she is the key to solving the Robert F. Kennedy killing."
Furthermore, as Faura explains in the book, he made many attempts to bring the FBI and the LAPD into his findings as he conducted his independent investigation, to no avail, although they both made perfunctory efforts to attempt to appease him as they feigned interest into pursuing his leads. Ultimately, he began to discover a number of traces back to higher powers, centered in Washington, DC and McLean, Virginia that seemed to be controlling the investigation, including two of the primary investigators assigned to the "SUS" unit that was in control of it: Hank Hernandez and Manny Pena had backgrounds with one such organization (AID), which was essentially an arm of the CIA. Faura has made a compelling and factual case that the investigation into RFK's murder was tainted from the start and that this along with many other real leads were ignored, while other clearly fabricated evidence was put into the record.
The result that was preordained -- a guilty verdict for Sirhan -- was achieved and undoubtedly counted as a "victory" for certain government officials back in Washington. The fact that Sirhan has been jailed for nearly fifty (50) years, and denied parole multiple times based upon that fabricated evidence, does not speak well for the justice system which produced that result. But it should serve, paradoxically, as a warning for all American citizens that George Orwell's nightmares were already coming true, even sixteen years before his predicted schedule.
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