{"id":364642,"date":"2018-06-09T04:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-new-call-for-a-probe\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T04:15:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T03:15:39","slug":"a-new-call-for-a-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-new-call-for-a-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Call for a Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Recent news about Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s fatal shooting sharpens the challenge for human rights organizations in how to address the shocking justice issues raised by the continued imprisonment of RFK\u2019s convicted slayer Sirhan Sirhan.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters and researchers have recently shown the disturbing pattern of suppressed evidence and other legal irregularities that led to Sirhan\u2019s 1969 murder conviction after his scanty defense at trial.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, May 26,\u00a0<i>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/i>published a front-page story by Tom Jackman headlined\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2018\/05\/26\/who-killed-bobby-kennedy-his-son-rfk-jr-doesnt-believe-it-was-sirhan-sirhan\/?utm_term=.a570bcb73b54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn\u2019t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The report constituted a breakthrough for a mainstream news organization, particularly because the article extensively examined scientific and other evidence supporting Sirhan\u2019s innocence.<\/p>\n<p>The official story is that Sirhan was a Kennedy-hating killer who acted alone to kill the senator at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following RFK\u2019s speech thanking his supporters for victory in the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>More than any other mainstream media journalist, the\u00a0<i>Post<\/i>\u2019s Jackman delved in depth into the evidence in both that first story and in a follow up on June 4,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/whowhatwhy.org\/2018\/06\/05\/was-sirhan-hypnotically-programmed-to-assassinate-rfk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Was Sirhan Hypnotically Programmed to Assassinate RFK?<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Jackman, while presenting diverse views in a professional manner, clearly showed anyone with an open mind that important evidence has been withheld and that Sirhan may well have been a victim of CIA MK Ultra mind control efforts with the goal of setting Sirhan up to be a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/6169006.stm\">patsy<\/a>\u00a0through the use of hypnosis and chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Many other researchers such as filmmaker, author and professor Shane O\u2019Sullivan have shown that Sirhan\u2019s role was to perform a distraction so that the real&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/06\/no_author\/oas-facing-call-for-new-probe-into-rfk-murder\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news about Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s fatal shooting sharpens the challenge for human rights organizations in how to address the shocking justice issues raised by the continued imprisonment of RFK\u2019s convicted slayer Sirhan Sirhan. Reporters and researchers have recently shown the disturbing pattern of suppressed evidence and other legal irregularities that led to Sirhan\u2019s 1969 [&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-364642","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\/364642","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=364642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}