num_pages: 377
description: On 6/4/68, just after he'd declared victory in the California presidential primary over Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Captured a few feet away, gun in hand, was a young Palestinian-American named Sirhan Sirhan. The case against Sirhan was declared by the police to be "open &amp; shut." The court proceedings against him nine months later were billed as "the trial of the century"--American justice at its fairest, swiftest &amp; most sure. But was it? Investigative journalist William Klaber &amp; political science professor Philip H. Melanson have spent six years examining the crime. After poring over previously secret LAPD &amp; FBI files, interviewing scores of witnesses &amp; investigators, &amp; talking with Sirhan in prison, the authors conclude: Sirhan may not have acted alone, his gun may not have killed Robert Kennedy, &amp; the police investigation &amp; courtroom defense were deeply flawed.
language: English
title: Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan & the Failure of American Justice
titlecomplete: Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan & the Failure of American Justice
characters: Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, American History, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 107
publisher: St Martins Press (NYC)