Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and the Failure of American Justice
Investigative journalist Klaber and Melanson, curator of the Kennedy Assassination Archives at the University of Massachusetts, spent six years researching the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. They conclude that Sirhan "may" not have acted alone, that his gun "may" not have killed Kennedy, and that the police investigation and Sirhan's courtroom defense were flawed. Since almost 30 years have passed, the authors can only speculate about certain aspects of the case, but they successfully document problems with the police investigation and the handling of Sirhan's defense. The case generates many intriguing questions about the crime's bizarre aspects, such as Sirhan's insistence that he acted alone but failure to remember the shooting. Similar studies (Robert. Kaiser's R.F.K. Must Die!, LJ 12/1/70; William Turner's The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, LJ 7/78; and anticonspiracy theorist Dan Moldea's The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, LJ 6/1/95) also argue that the police and the court were lax. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.