🇺🇸 Who Killed Robert Kennedy? | Al Jazeera World

Filmmaker: Bahiya Namour Fifty years ago, United States Senator Robert F Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just moments after he’d won California’s Democratic presidential primary. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, was arrested at the scene of the shooting in what the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) thought was an open-and-shut case. Sirhan was tried and jailed for Robert Kennedy’s murder. But since the 1970s, there have been calls for a new investigation into the assassination, based on differing witness accounts, the number of shots fired and distance of Sirhan from Kennedy when he fired. “We’re trying to prove there was a travesty of justice in 1969 at Sirhan’s trial. We’re trying to prove that there was no way that he could have shot the senator, let alone have killed the senator,“ says Laurie Dusek, a member of Sirhan’s defence team. Kennedy’s wounds suggest his