Sirhan
Sirhan: In His Own Words: Revealing The Myth Of The Rule
Of Law In America
27 June 2010 By Stephen Lendman
Shortly after midnight on June 5,
1968, Robert Kennedy was shot, The New York Times
headlining:
"Kennedy is Dead, Victim of
Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson
Appoints Panel on Violence"
Sirhan Sirhan was the alleged
assassin, convicted, and serving a life sentence at
(no pun intended) Pleasant Valley State Prison, CA,
despite convincing evidence of his innocence.
In his October 17, 2008 article
"The Assassinations of the 1960s as 'Deep Events,' "
Peter Dale Scott discussed the killings of both
Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, saying:
"The more that I look at these
deep events comparatively, ranging over the past five
decades, the more similarities I see between them, and
the more I understand them in the light of each
other."
With respect to both Kennedys and
King, official accounts obscured the events,
suppressed key facts, enough to question the guilt of
the alleged suspects, concealing the real culprits and
why men of this stature were assassinated - what Scott
called "some continuing and hostile force within our
society..."
In his June 13, 2010 article
titled, "JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The
Patsies that Didn't," James Fetzer debunked the
official accounts, saying:
"we are looking at staged events
that fit into a recurrent pattern in US and world
history where innocent individuals (or 'patsies') are
baited and framed for cover-up purposes," RFK's
killing "in part intended to prevent a reinvestigation
into his brother's death....The assassinations of RFK
and JFK were both conspiracies. Both involved the
destruction of evidence. Both involved the fabrication
of evidence. Both involved framing their patsies. Both
involved complicity by local officials. Both involved
planning by the CIA. Both were used to deny the
American people (their) right to be governed by
leaders of their own choosing." Both put a myth to the
rule of law, judicial fairness, and democratic
freedoms.
Both crimes and MLK's
assassination eliminated figures dark American forces
wanted silenced, blaming innocent "patsies" for the
killings, Sirhan Sirhan for RFK's. Fetzer's article
explains numerous important facts:
-- multiple shots targeted him,
more "than could have come from Sirhan Sirhan's gun"
that was also the wrong caliber;
-- "RFK was shot behind the right
ear from about 1.5 inches, but Sirhan was never that
close and always in front of him;"
-- the coroner and LAPD reports
were contradictory;
-- LAPD "engaged in massive
destruction of evidence from the pantry of the hotel
because 'it would not fit into a card file,' " as part
of an official cover-up to blame Sirhan for a
state-sponsored assassination, evidence suggesting CIA
involvement in both Kennedy brothers and MLK
killings;
-- Sirhan's gun was a ".22
caliber, eight-round revolver (serial number
H-53725);"
-- he "emptied his weapon from a
location in front of Bobby Kennedy;"
-- Dr. Thomas Hoguchi's autopsy
"showed RFK was hit by four bullets, all of which were
fired from behind at upward angles;
-- five others were wounded by
separate shots;"
-- as many as 13 shots were
fired;
-- Dr. Noguchi's autopsy "did not
point to Sirhan as the killer;"
-- an eyewitness, DeWayne Wofler,
"testified that the bullets fired at RFK had come from
an entirely different gun," not Sirhan's;
-- a security guard, Eugene
Cesar, standing right behind RFK, had a drawn gun of
the same caliber as the murder weapon; it was never
examined nor was he charged; and
-- "a woman in a polka dot dress"
left the scene hurriedly, "shouting, "We shot him! We
shot him! We shot Kennedy!"
In their book, "The Assassination
of Robert F. Kennedy," Jonn Christian and William
Turner made a convincing case "indicting Cesar for the
crime," concluding "that Sirhan may have been firing
blanks."
Fetzer's article has detailed
information on both JFK and RFK assassinations,
accessed through the following link:
http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2010/06/jfk-and-rfk-plots-that-killed-them.html
Below, Sirhan gives his own
account of what happened that night and why he was at
the Ambassador Hotel.
"My Morning with Sirhan"
On January 21, 2010, Academic
Prison Teacher, Gerald B. Reynolds, spent time with
Sirhan and wrote it up in detail. An account below
follows.
At the Delta Facility library, a
prison guard let him in. His ID said Sirhan Sirhan.
"He looked at me in a calm way with a half-smile. I
looked at him....There was an eerie, prolonged
silence." He's now 66 years old, 42 of them in prison
for a crime he didn't commit.
After another "calm silence....I
swiveled in my chair to face Sirhan Sirhan and asked,
'Did you do it?' "
"Did I do what," he responded.
Reynolds: "You know."
Sirhan: "What do you want to
know?"
Reynolds: "Did you kill Robert F.
Kennedy?"
Sirhan: "No, I did NOT kill
Robert F. Kennedy!"
Reynolds: "I know you didn't."
Sirhan: "How do you know?"
Reynolds explained that he
studied the details of his case, learned that RFK was
killed at point blank range by a bullet to the back of
his head.
"The real assassin appears to be
Kennedy's 26 year old Ace Security Company
bodyguard....Thane Eugene Cesar. At least one eye
witness claims to have seen Cesar with a smoking gun
in his hand immediately after Kennedy fell to the
floor. An audio recording made during the
assassination indicates that there were at least 11
shots fired (perhaps more) from possibly three
different guns."
"The conclusion is that Kennedy
was shot three times from behind with a fourth bullet
passing through his suit coat. The fact that you (Sirhan)
were standing in front of Kennedy is undisputed and
yet according to the coroner's report not one bullet
entered Robert F. Kennedy from the front of his
body."
Sirhan: "Oh my! I knew this
morning when I woke up that God was telling me he had
something great in store for me today and this is it!
God has sent you to me!....I was beginning to lose
hope so you were sent to lift my spirits. Now I can be
hopeful again. Thank goodness somebody else knows."
Reynolds: "Have you ever talked
to anybody else in prison that knows the truth of your
case?"
Sirhan: "Yes. One person, that's
all....He was one who drives a truck around and
empties the dumpsters....I had a job where I had to
take the garbage out of the kitchen....to the
dumpster....once in a while he would talk to me. He
told me he believed I was innocent."
Reynolds: "Did you talk to this
guy often?"
Sirhan: "Actually no. He and I
only talked maybe about three times and each time it
was only for about five minutes or so."
He explained that he never met
anyone in prison, besides him, who knows. He said
friends on the outside set up a web site for him -
rfkmustdie.com, with information about him, RFK, and
whether CIA operatives killed him, framing Sirhan for
the crime.
Reynolds: "Do you have an appeal
on file right now?"
Sirhan: "Not now. Everything has
run its course. I had a great attorney named Lawrence
Teeter....He was a wonderful man and a great attorney.
He tried several times to win me an appeal and even
just to get a new evidentiary hearing but the courts
seemed biased against me. The judges wouldn't
budge....Teeter died in 2005, and I haven't really
tried to work on any appeal since then."
Yet he feels, one day, he can be
cleared and set free. "The truth will win out," he
believes. Earlier he was on San Quentin's death row
for three years. "They thought they were rid of me but
then something happened they didn't plan on."
Led by Chief Justice Rose Bird,
"the California Supreme Court intervened and ruled
that the death penalty was unconstitutional. The
ruling was retroactive and my sentence was commuted to
life in prison. They thought I was dead and yet after
41 and a half years I'm still alive!" Now it's over
42.
But "they stole my life!....I've
been rotting in that stinking prison for (over four
decades) for nothing!....The bastards stole my
life....I have been denied parole 13 times. I am
scheduled for another parole hearing in 2011. (Against
long odds), Maybe if there was a grassroots movement,
like perhaps millions of people finding out how the
authorities have buried me unjustly, and coming
together in demonstrations all over the country they
would have to reconsider and let me go."
Saying to Reynolds, "You do it
for me. Become a guest speaker at colleges and
universities and speak on my behalf....I hereby give
you my permission....I will notify the press of your
name and mission."
Reynolds: "Ah, no, not my name.
My name can't be attached to this. I could get in big
trouble. You know the monsters that run this place."
Sirhan: "OK, I understand. We
will keep you anonymous."
Reynolds offered to make this
conversation available to anyone "responsible enough
to appreciate it." Sirhan suggested sending to
magazines and newspapers. Reynolds said he'd try, sent
it to one on the progressive left that wouldn't
publish it, one reason for discussing it here.
Sirhan also explained he's
Palestinian, born in Jerusalem in 1944, "alive during
the turmoil that erupted when the United Nations stole
our country and gave it to the Jews."
In fact, its 1947 Partition Plan
(General Assembly Resolution 181) gave them 56% of
historic Palestine, placing Jerusalem (declared a
corpus separatum, a separate body) under UN
trusteeship as an international city, binding to this
day. At the time, Palestinians comprised two-thirds of
the population, owning 93% of the land, most of it now
stolen. All of it occupied illegally.
Ever since, Israelis treated "my
people....like dogs. (They) shoot rockets and tank
fire into the West Bank (and Gaza) killing everyone,
including women and children. They drop bombs and
spray machine gun fire into crowded marketplaces. They
are treating my people the same way they were treated
by the Nazis....It breaks my heart to see how my
people are suffering."
Reynolds: "So, then, you're a
Muslim?"
Sirhan: "No....I am a Christian.
My whole family is Christian....We have been
Christians for at least 800 years. We are Palestinian
Christians."
He came to America at age 11,
moved to Los Angeles, and settled in Pasadena,
attending Altadena's Eliot Junior High School,
graduating from John Muir High School, then completing
two years of junior college..."
Reynolds asked if he had any
connections to Middle East or organized terrorists?
Sirhan: "No. No way! I am alone.
I am by myself. I do have a few people in the West
Bank that I correspond with but they are just regular
people. I have a brother in Los Angeles. But I
definitely do not have any terrorist connections and I
am not a member of any groups, any groups at all."
Spurious prison information
circulated that on 9/11, he "gleefully clapped (his)
hands and (was) delighted" to see the twin towers
collapse, adding that he had confidential information
of the impending attack "by a Middle Eastern terrorist
organization whose members revere you as an icon and a
hero and do everything they can to honor you."
Sirhan: "Oh my God, that's
ridiculous. I've never had anything to do with any
terrorist groups. Who said this about me?"
Reynolds: "It was Chief Deputy
Warden James Mattingly."
Sirhan said he'll sue him for
libel and slander, adding he wants to see his
evidence. Reynolds asked what he thought of the
incident, Sirhan explaining that he cried because his
country was attacked and "felt sadness and anger and
wanted to punish the people responsible...."
Reynolds: "Sirhan, what were the
events that led up to you being in the pantry of the
Ambassador Hotel on the night" JFK was shot there?
Sirhan: "In the evening, I had
something to eat at Bob's Big Boy. Then later in the
evening, I decided to drive downtown....The Jews were
going to be having a big party to celebrate the
one-year anniversary of Israel's" Six Day War
victory."
Reynolds: "What did you intend to
do once your got there?"
Sirhan: " I don't know exactly
but I wanted to protest. The Jews should not have been
allowed to fill the streets in celebration of stealing
more of our land. I can remember driving down Highway
5 with my 22 caliber hand gun lying next to me on the
passenger seat."
Reynolds: "Why did you have a gun
with you in the car?"
Sirhan: "I had been shooting at
the range earlier that day."
Reynolds: "Was the gun....out in
the open?"
Sirhan: "No, it was in the
plastic box it came in, you know, with the cloth, the
cleaning rod, and oil."
Reynolds: "and what did you do
when you got downtown?"
Sirhan: "I realized that I was a
day early and that the event was to take place the
next night. So I just drove back up the freeway."
Reynolds: "Why did you stop at
the Ambassador Hotel?"
Sirhan: "I don't know. I can't
remember parking and going in there but I must have
because I was there."
Reynolds: "What did you do when
you got there?"
Sirhan: "It was hot that night
and I was very thirsty. I remember that....I went to
the bar and had four drinks within about 15 minutes. I
couldn't seem to get enough to drink....They were Tom
Collins's....(but) I wasn't drunk. I felt drugged. I
think somebody slipped something into my drinks. My
legs and arms became rubbery. I remember standing by
my car but I couldn't drive so I went back inside and
got some coffee."
Reynolds: "How did you get
downstairs to the pantry?"
Sirhan: "Somebody guided me. I
don't know who."
Reynolds: "Did you have your gun
with you?"
Sirhan: "Yes. When I was in the
pantry, the gun was in my hand."
Reynolds: "Did you know Robert
Kennedy was going to be walking toward you?"
Sirhan: "No. I didn't know where
I was and I don't know how I got there. I was in a
state of blackout."
Reynolds: "You were a Manchurian
candidate....It's something the CIA uses. They
assassinate a president, or senator, or anyone they
wish, and make it look like some crazed, lone-nut
assassin did it. But he has been heavily drugged,
possibly with LSD, and undergone intense brainwashing
followed by reprogramming. Everything you're saying
about yourself follows the established pattern of the
drugged, duped, CIA patsy."
Sirhan: "They used me, framed me,
and they set me up to die."
Reynolds: "Do you remember firing
the gun that was in your hand?"
Sirhan: "I can't remember. I was
blacked out. I remember feeling woozy and it felt like
I was falling down....I don't remember the things that
happened that night."
Reynolds: "Do you remember being
led in handcuffs out of the Ambassador Hotel and made
to sit in the back seat of a police car?"
Sirhan: "I remember being led
away but I didn't know why they were doing this to me.
Nobody told me anything."
He was interrogated by the police
for about 24 hours, detectives telling him he murdered
JFK. "They yelled at me. They kept shoving papers at
me demanding that I sign...They were documents saying
I killed Kennedy. Confession. They insisted I had
murdered Robert F. Kennedy and they demanded I confess
and sign the papers....At first I resisted, but later
I confessed and signed the papers. They broke me down
and I told them I would do anything they wanted me to
do. I just wanted it to stop."
After he confessed, he was taken
to a cell and allowed to sleep. A court trial followed
where his "interrogators convinced me to plead guilty
and ask for the death penalty....I told the judge I
was guilty and wanted the death penalty," explaining
he was ashamed.
"They made me believe I had
murdered Robert Kennedy in cold blood and I was
remorseful and ashamed. Everyone said I was guilty.
They said I would get the death penalty....no matter
what I said or did. They said it was an open and shut
case and that I might as well give up. I just wanted
to get the whole thing over with and if it meant me
being dead, so be it. I didn't have anything left to
live for anyway."
A trial followed, Sirhan
represented by attorney Grant Cooper, a man he called
"crooked. He had mafia and CIA connections," Sirhan
explaining what he knew and his mob involvement. "He
was (picked) to make sure I was convicted and sent to
my death, and Cooper complied because they were
planning to kill him" otherwise.
Reynolds asked him to portray
what he remembered doing at the Ambassador Hotel.
Sirhan stood up, swayed, his arms gently rising,
looked straight ahead, then made a gun shape with his
right hand, his arm parallel to the ground pretending
to shoot, saying:
"At a specific moment, and I
can't remember when or why, I shot my 22 caliber
pistol three times. My arms were unsteady but level
with the ground. Two of the shots missed. I saw them
miss. One of the shots may have bounced off him like a
BB. All of a sudden people were grabbing me. They were
forcing me down....Did anybody say I reached around
behind and shot Robert Kennedy in the back of the
head?"
Reynolds: "Nobody."
Sirhan: "But that's what I
would've had to do" to kill him....So, what do you
think of me now? Do you think I am crazy like they
say?"
Not at all, said Reynolds, Sirhan
adding "I am just a man. I am a man just like you. I
am trained never to allow an inmate to touch me."
In parting, he embraced Reynolds,
both of them now "secret friends in a desolate
place."
A Final
Comment
Evidence strongly suggests that
Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan
were patsies, blamed for state-sponsored
assassinations, likely carried out by CIA operatives
or hired guns they enlisted.
Jack Ruby, with known mob and
police connections, fatally shot Oswald on November
22, 1963. Incarcerated without trial, James Earl Ray
died in prison on April 23, 1998, proclaiming his
innocence. Sirhan Sirhan has been imprisoned since
1968, despite no evidence proving his guilt.
In these and hundreds more cases
in US courts, justice was denied, revealing the myth
of the rule of law, under a system absolving
high-level crime, getting patsies punished for
offenses they didn't commit, the major media always
going along, supporting official accounts without
question.
Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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