The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991

Philip H. Melanson

SP Books, 1994 - History - 432 pages

A credible, shocking account featuring new evidence about the RFK assassination and the Los Angeles Police Department's cover-up. The LAPD is shown to have misrepresented key facts, destroyed material evidence, and obstructed independent investigations. Photos.

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Robert F Kennedy Assassination

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The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991

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This book methodically and meticulously analyzes the evidence about the 1968 Robert Kennedy assassination, reopening the question of possible alternatives to the officially accepted version of Sirhan ...

Contents

• Foreword by Anthony Summers: 1
• Introduction by John H Davis: 3
• Prologue: 9
• Assassination: 15
• Openandshut: 23
• Conflicting Evidence: 31
• Nine Bullets Two Guns: 39
• Second Gun: 61
• The Cesar Controversy: 71
• LAPD: 87
• LADA: 109
• Critic Bashing: 129
• Motive and Memory: 141
• The Robot Assassin: 167
• Hollywood Hyp: 199
• The Female Accomplice: 217
• LAPDs Handling of Sandra Serrano: 237
• Guns and Girls: 259
• Iranian Enigma: 273
• The Web of Intelligence: 287
• ReInvestigation: 301
• Excerpts from Dan Moldeas 1987: 311
• Analysis of LAPD Interviews: 317
• A Selected Chronology of: 331
• Acknowledgments: 345
• Index: 355

About the author

Investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers has written Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Goddess: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe and Not in Your Lifetime, a book about the Kennedy assassination. Summers received the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction in 1980 for Conspiracy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991
• Author: Philip H. Melanson
• Contributors: Anthony Summers, John H. Davis
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SP Books, 1994
• ISBN: 1561713244, 9781561713240
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General