{"id":363736,"date":"2018-06-02T03:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sirhan-sirhan-is-innocent\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T03:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T02:02:41","slug":"sirhan-sirhan-is-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sirhan-sirhan-is-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirhan Sirhan Is Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In 1968, almost five years after the killing of President John F. Kennedy had stunned America, the hopes of Democrat voters were pinned on his idealistic younger brother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At 42, Robert F. Kennedy was seeking nomination as Democrat presidential candidate. Yet no one realised that history was about to repeat itself in a brutal and shocking way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.30pm, Tuesday, June 4, 1968. Malibu,\u00a0<a id=\"mol-33b1da50-6064-11e8-b9bf-c1c603f17749\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\">California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All day, Californians have been voting in a crucial primary. If Robert Kennedy wins, he&#8217;ll almost certainly get the Democratic nomination \u2014 then run for President against the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-33b16520-6064-11e8-b9bf-c1c603f17749\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/republicans\/index.html\">Republicans<\/a>&#8216; Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Bobby \u2014 as everyone calls him \u2014 is setting off for his campaign HQ in downtown Los Angeles. Film director John Frankenheimer is at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby slumps exhausted in the passenger seat of his friend&#8217;s Rolls-Royce. For the past 80 days, he&#8217;s been criss-crossing America. In most places, he&#8217;s been greeted like a rock star, with people frantically trying to reach out and touch him.<\/p>\n<p>The man currently in the White House, Lyndon B. Johnson, has seen the writing on the wall \u2014 he recently announced he won&#8217;t be running.<\/p>\n<p>The allure of another President Kennedy, almost five years after the assassination of JFK, is just too strong.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Bobby can beat Nixon is another matter. Not everyone approves of his determination to end racial inequality or his constant talk of radical change. In Washington DC, he&#8217;s clashed with everyone from the military establishment to the FBI and CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the freeway, Bobby suddenly realises that Frankenheimer is driving too fast. &#8216;Take it easy, John,&#8217; he says. &#8216;Life&#8217;s too short.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.10pm, Los Angeles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frankenheimer&#8217;s Rolls pulls into the Ambassador Hotel car park.<\/p>\n<p>12am, Wednesday, June 5. Ambassador Hotel, LA<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We want Bobby! We want Bobby!&#8217; The Embassy Room&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/06\/no_author\/why-the-man-whos-spent-50-years-in-jail-for-killing-bobby-kennedy-couldnt-have-done-it\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1968, almost five years after the killing of President John F. Kennedy had stunned America, the hopes of Democrat voters were pinned on his idealistic younger brother. At 42, Robert F. Kennedy was seeking nomination as Democrat presidential candidate. Yet no one realised that history was about to repeat itself in a brutal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}