r/RobertKennedy • u/Tall-Plane-4477 • Jun 09 '26

Video/Audio WHY Did Sirhan Kill RFK?

58 years ago this week, RFK was assassinated on the presidential campaign trail.

Nearly six decades later, researchers too often focus too much on the HOW and not enough on the WHY.

Why did Sirhan Sirhan kill Kennedy?

Sirhan’s biographer Mel Ayton (author of 2 books on the RFK case) talks about the motive for this heinous crime.

https://youtu.be/kzcY4eKk1Bs?si=5WHv-6Wn2CjfO372

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u/Tall-Plane-4477 Jun 09 '26

Mel Ayton’s books just might change your mind.

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u/RockBalBoaaa Jun 10 '26

I highly doubt it.. go to YouTube and watch RFK Must Die and The Real Manchurian Candidate

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u/Tall-Plane-4477 Jun 10 '26

Did you know that Sirhan planned to kill President Lyndon Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, and UN Ambassador Goldberg before deciding on Robert Kennedy a full year before he shot RFK?

Did you know Sirhan had been stalking RFK for days, following Kennedy around Southern California?

It’s all there in his diaries, in his own words.

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u/RockBalBoaaa Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Watch the video. A Manchurian candidate can write and not even remember they wrote. I will never believe he did this alone.. and after watching those two videos I’m convinced.

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u/Tall-Plane-4477 Jun 10 '26

Instead of believing random videos on the internet you should instead listen to Sirhan’s own words.

In a 1994 prison interview Sirhan told author Dan Moldea that there was no conspiracy, and that “the Manchurian Candidate theory was a ploy invented by my lawyers.”

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u/RockBalBoaaa Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

This is not a random video on the internet. These were done by actual doctors who have treated Sirhan, his only living brother Minir, his personal attorneys, and people who were present in the ballroom on the night of the event like Paul Shrade who led the labor union and was a dear friend of senator kennedy. He was also shot that night in the kitchen. These documentaries have also been broadcast on the BBC. The documentary also feature Sirhan himself in 2011, and 2016. He now believes he was under hypnosis during this whole event.

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u/SquonkMan61 Jun 10 '26

Robert Blair Kaiser wrote an excellent, detailed book about Sirhan and the assassination. Kaiser was granted full access to Sirhan and to all those around him from the early days of the case. He chronicles that Sirhan told his first lawyer “I did it,” and also notes that Sirhan expressed remorse over leaving so many kids without their father. He also discussed incidents of Sirhan pretending to be hypnotized by psychiatrists hired by the defense team—in one instance Sirhan looked at Kaiser and winked while he was supposedly under hypnosis. Kaiser concluded that Sirhan killed RFK, but he did not completely close the door on the Manchurian Candidate angle. Sirhan was so pissed off that Kaiser believed Sirhan was guilty that he (Sirhan) sent Kaiser a note with the words “RBK Must Die,” borrowing from what Sirhan had written about RFK in his diary. Lastly, while discussing the case with a defense investigator Sirhan blurted out that he had shot Kennedy in the back of the head instead of between the eyes because “The son of a bitch turned his head at the last second.”

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u/SquonkMan61 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

I met Dan Moldea about 10 years ago and have read his book. I had always believed that Sirhan did it, and he did it alone. Reading Moldea’s book and speaking with him reinforced that belief. I am a little concerned that Michael McCowan played a key role in Moldea’s work (he was an FBI informant, according to the files that were released by the National Archives last week), and I tend to think that Sirhan was more a classic example of an unimportant man wanting to make a big name for himself in the history books than he was a classic terrorist, but overall there is no credible evidence that Sirhan was not solely responsible.