This is Renegade Files Episode 15, The Bobby Kennedy Assassination.

On June 5^th 1968, just four and a half years after his brother, President John Kennedy was shot and killed, US Senator and presidential hopeful Bobby Kennedy addressed his supporters and the press at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

Kennedy had just won back-to-back victories in South Dakota and California on the campaign trail of primaries seeking the Democratic Nomination for the upcoming presidential race. With minimal Security, Bobby Kennedy left the podium and proceeded to exit the hotel through a kitchen pantry when he was shot in the head and back multiple times.

Bobby Kennedy died in the Good Samaritan Hospital 26 hours later.

A Jordanian Immigrant, Sirhan-Sirhan, angry over RFK’s position on Palestine, was wrestled to the ground at the time of the shooting, a smoking gun in his hand, and the LAPD had an open and shut case.

But did they? From the first moments after the shooting, evidence of Sirhan-Sirhan’s connection with shady hypnosis programs and the bizarre letters found at his home, combined with the fact that he claimed to have no memory of either the shooting or writing the inflammatory letters, caused many to speculate that the assassin had acted under some kind of mind control. 

And this is not the only focus of the conspiracy theories to arise around the RFK killing. Accounts of a second gun, extra bullets, destroyed evidence, and deep state cover-up began to pile up and persist to this day. 

So join Renegade Files and dive into one the most tragic and least understood events of the Space Age American Experience: The Bobby Kennedy Assassination.

Diagram of the “Pantry” (labeled “Serving Kitchen” in this drawing). Illustration courtesy of the LA Times. June 6, 1968.

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Music: 

Theme Song: “Steve’s Djembe” by Vani, FMA, licensed: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 License.

“Oh Radiant One” by Siddhartha Corsus, FMA, licensed: Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License.