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Audio from reporter in the Ambassador Hotel pantry at the time of the shooting .
A photograph of Robert Kennedy              lying on the floor was immediately televised as reporters announced in              voice-overs that he had been shot by an unknown assailant. About two hours              after the shooting, additional footage was shown of RFK from behind as              he stepped up to the podium and spoke to the crown of supporters. Early on the morning              of 6 June, a news conference was held to announce Robert Kennedy's death. His              funeral was televised on 7 June.
The shooter was later identified as Sirhan              Sirhan, a Palestinian born in Jerusalem who had emigrated to the United              States when he was twelve. When motive for the shooting was sought,              Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War was suggested              based upon an article found on Sirhan's person.
After Sirhan's arrest, his              handwritten personal journals and diaries were discovered. Most of             the entries were incoherent and repetitive, yet there was one entry             that clearly expressed "RFK must die".  However, Sirhan's             diary had entries focusing on killing Robert Kennedy dated before             Kennedy's support of Israel became public knowledge. Therefore, using             the June 1967 Six-Day War as motive seemed hallow. 
Investigations revealed Sirhan Sirhan              was fascinated with the occult, particularly the practice of hypnosis             and mind control. Sirhan has always maintained, even under repeated             attempts at intensive hypnosis, that he has no memory of the crime.             In the 1990s, Sirhan proposed the theory that he had been brainwashed           - suggesting he was truly a "Manchurian Candidate".
Assassination Abnormalities
Powder burns on Kennedy's clothing reveal that all three of his wounds             were from a gun fired from 0 to 1-1/2 inches away. And yet, all witnesses             claim that Sirhan, who was in front of Kennedy, never got closer             than three feet away.
Sirhan's gun could hold only eight bullets. Seven bullets were                 removed from victims, an eighth bullet was traced through two ceilings                 into airspace, and two more bullets were identified as lodged in               the door frame of the pantry by both LAPD and FBI personnel.
Three bullets were found in Robert Kennedy,             and a fourth grazed his suit jacket. The upward angle of each trajectory             was close to 80 degrees. And yet, all witnesses claim Sirhan's gun was                   completely horizontal for his first two shots, after which his gun               hand was repeatedly slammed against the top of a steam table.
All four shots;                 the fatal penetration to the brain, the shot that passed through                 the right shoulder pad of the Senator's coat, and two additional                 bullets that entered Kennedy's body were all fired from the back                 and all produced powder residue patterns which indicated that they                 were all fired from a distance of only a few inches. Since RFK               was walking towards Sirhan, and his body was always facing Sirhan               during the shots even as he fell backwards it is impossible these               shots originated from Sirhan's weapon.
The results of the 1968 test firing of Sirhan's gun were missing.
The test gun used for ballistics comparison and identification                 was destroyed.
Over 90% of the audio taped witness testimony was lost or destroyed.                 Of the 3470 interviews the LAPD conducted, only 301 were preserved.
On August 21, 1968, 2400 photographs from the original investigation                 were burned, in the medical-waste incinerator at LA County General               Hospital.
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