Note: This brief article is dedicated to a voice on the phone, a
mordantly funny, wise, cynical, strong voice I heard and spoke with, on
and off, in the 1980s. The voice belonged to Jonn Christian, on the
move, on the run. Now deceased, Jonn was the co-author of the
suppressed 1978 book,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The book finally became available, and it still is.
Shane O'Sullivan, a relentless researcher into the 1968 assassination of
Bobby Kennedy, writes an explosive report at whowhatwhy.org, 2/16/2016:
"The Full Story of the recent Sirhan Sirhan Parole Hearing." I strongly recommend reading his full article.
There are so many crucial points: no television cameras allowed at
Sirhan's 14th parole hearing on February 9th; RFK's son now supports a
new investigation into his father's murder; Paul Schrade, RFK's
long-time friend, who was shot in the pantry at the Ambassador Hotel
during the assassination, testifies at length.
Here are key quotes from O'Sullivan's article:
"The request for a new [murder] investigation was partly based on a new
analysis of the [Stanislaw] Pruszynski recording, the only known audio
recording of the shooting. After studying the tape, forensic audio
expert Phil Van Praag concluded 13 shots and 2 guns were fired in the
Ambassador Hotel pantry on the night of the shooting [proving there were
two shooters---Sirhan and an unknown person]."
"The FBI refused to accept the papers Van Praag had written detailing
his methodologies and discoveries. In fact, the Bureau refused to
communicate with him in any way."
[Paul Schrade speaking to Sirhan at the hearing] "Sirhan, I forgive you.
The evidence clearly shows you were not the gunman who shot Robert
Kennedy. There is clear evidence of a second gunman in that kitchen
pantry who shot Robert Kennedy...The fatal bullet struck Bob in the back
of the head...You were never behind Bob, nor was Bob's back ever
exposed to you...the evidence not only shows that you did not shoot
Robert Kennedy but it shows that you could not have shot Robert
Kennedy."
Harvard psychologist Daniel Brown submitted a document to the parole
board. "Since May 2008," O'Sullivan writes, "Dr. Brown has spent over
100 hours with Sirhan, including a two-day visit last September."
Quoting from Dr. Brown's document: "Mr. Sirhan is one of the most
hypnotizable individuals I have ever met, and the magnitude of his
amnesia for actions not under his voluntary [control] in hypnosis is
extreme. This unusual combination of personality factors makes Mr.
Sirhan the type of individual extremely vulnerable to coercive social
influence [and accounts for his] uncharacteristic behavior and strong
amnesia for that behavior on the night of Senator Kennedy's
assassination..."
O'Sullivan: "After a fall from a horse at a ranch in Corona in 1966,
Sirhan was briefly hospitalized but, as Dr. Brown notes, 'his mother and
best friend both state that he was missing for two full weeks. Mr.
Sirhan recalls being in the hospital for several weeks. Sometime
thereafter he was taken to a military firing range and trained to shoot
upon command at vital human organs while in an hypnotic state.'
"Dr. Brown notes that Sirhan's 'dissociative vulnerability' causes him 'on rare occasions to shift self-states':
"[Doctor Brown writes:] 'On more than one occasion, I was able to find
the cue to induce "range mode", wherein upon hypnotic cue, Mr. Sirhan
takes his firing stance, hypnotically hallucinates that he is shooting
at circle targets at a firing range, automatically starts shooting, and
subsequently is completely amnesic for the hypnotically induced
behavior.'"
No comments:
Post a Comment