Legacy of Secrecy (174 page)

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

1.
Thousands of searchable government files about Bobby’s assassination, as well as those of JFK and Dr.

King, are available through the Mary Ferrell Foundation at maryferrell.org.
2.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing
of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), pp. 26, 27; see also many passages in Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991) and William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006).
3.
Ibid Moldea, pp. 103-106.
4.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), p. 291, citing LAPD chronology.
5.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 223; also note that the newest type of home movie camera at the time,

Notes

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Super-8, was far smaller (and thus easier to conceal) than the large and bulky 16-mm camera used to film

Sirhan, with film and processing for Super-8 being a fraction of the cost of 16-mm.
6.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p 223.
7.
Ibid, p. 224; also, note that Sirhan apparently didn’t disappear completely, but enough to make his mother worry.

8.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
Fatal Hour
(New York: Berkley Books, 1992), p. 429; Dan E.

Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), pp. 104, 105, 294, 297.
9.
David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), p. 349.
10.
Dan E.

Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 105.
11.
David E.

Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), pp. 349, 350; Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), p. 160; Ibid, p. 108.
12.
Ibid Moldea, pp. 80.

293. 294.
13.
FBI interview with D. Herrick, 6-21-68.
14.
FBI interview with B. J. Herrick, 6-20-68.
15.
Dan E.

Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 107, citing LAPD

files.
16.
Ibid Moldea, p. 105.
17.
The case involved Johnny Rosselli’s Chicago Mafia associates, and David E. Scheim writes that a young man named Giuseppe Zangara had bet heavily on horse and dog racing,

and had brief contact with a drug operation. At the same time, Chicago mayor Anton Cermak was trying

to run Capone’s mob out of Chicago. Zangara ran “into trouble with the Syndicate and [had] been given

a choice: shoot Cermak or be killed or tortured himself.” The Mafia plot was confirmed by the “president

of the Chicago Crime Commission,” a prominent Chicago judge who was friends with the mayor, and

was even confirmed by the mayor himself, before he died after being shot. Chicago mobster Roger Touhy

explained how the Cermak hit was done, to noted sociologist Saul D. Alinsky, a member of the prison

board: In 1933, Mayor Cermak was in Miami, in a car with President-elect Franklin Roosevelt. “In the

crowd near Zangara was another armed man—a Capone killer. In the flurry of shots six people were

hit—but the bullet that struck Cermak” didn’t come from Zangara’s pistol, but “was fired by the unknown

Capone man who took advantage of the confusion to accomplish his mission.”
18.
Philip H. Melan-

son,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), photo-document pages.
19.
LAPD

interview with subject 6-25-68, cited in Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org.; “Brother of Sirhan fights deportation,”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
6-20-68 (Night Final edition), p. A-3; we don’t mean to imply that this brother had anything to do with a

contract to kill Bobby.
20.
Interview by Sgt. Bowles, 6-8-68, File # I-93; LAPD SUS, p. 1019.
21.
LAPD interview 7-25-68, I-1831.
22.
LAPD SUS Report, p. 343.
23.
Ramparts Detective Division Raaegep interview, 6-6-68.
24.
Sirhan notebooks, California State Archives; Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org, citing Robert Blair Kaiser,
RFK Must Die
(Nw York: Grove Press, 1970), p. 471.
25.
“The Other Gunshot Victims,” Associated Press, at msnbc.com; Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998; Dan E.

Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995)
26.
Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org; Ibid Moldea, p. 122.
27.
Sirhan notebooks, California State Archives; Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), pp. 152, 156, 157: Melanson notes that the only thing even close is Sirhan’s repeated writing of the name “Nassar,” the Egyptian leader admired by many young Arabs.

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

1.
Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.

org.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Ibid: SUS indicates officer “said he did not feel the man he observed was Sirhan”; Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), pp. 218-218.
4.
Dan E.

Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), pp. 107, 109.
5.
Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org; William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 222.
6.
FBI Arnot interview 6-18-68.
7.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W.

W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 109.
8.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F.

Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 222.
9.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 109; Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org.
10.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), pp. 278, 279.
11.
Ibid, pp. 273-285: While some have tried to place Khan at the center of a large Iranian conspiracy to kill Bobby, no evidence has surfaced to support that. According

to one account, Khan had met with Bobby’s close aides Walter Sheridan and Pierre Salinger on June 3 at

the Ambassador Hotel and, as an opponent of the repressive Shah, Khan had every reason to want to see

someone like Bobby—with his concern for Human Rights—elected president. Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the

RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998.
12.
Ibid Melanson, 273-85, 291.

13.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 26;
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Ibid Melanson, p. 160.
14.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), pp. 118, 119.
15.
Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org; Ibid, many passages.
16.
Ibid Turner and Christian, pp. 224, 225.
17.
Ibid, pp. 155, 156, 292-96.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Ibid, p. 156.
21.
Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK

Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998; David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed
President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), p. 359; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American
Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 289; Ovid Demaris,
The Last Mafios
o (New York: Bantam, 1981), pp. 251-54.
22.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 301.
23.
David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), p. 359; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 289; Ovid Demaris,
The Last Mafios
o (New York: Bantam, 1981), pp. 251-54.
24.
Robert Windler, “Lawyer, 73, Agrees to Defend Sirhan Without Fee,”
The New York Times
, 6-20-68.
25.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 116.
26.
Evan Thomas,
The Man To See
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 197-99; Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998.
27.
Robert Windler, “Lawyer, 73, Agrees to Defend Sirhan Without Fee,”
The New
York Times
, 6-20-68.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid; Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998.
30.
David E. Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President
John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989), p. 331.
31.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 134.
32.
Ibid, p. 119; William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 105.
33.
Ibid Turner and Christian, p. 159.
34.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), pp. 24, 61-121, 62-86, many others; Ibid Turner and Christian, pp. 104, 105.
35.
Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK

Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998; Ibid Melanson, p. 26.
36.
RFK LAPD

Microfilm, vol. 47, Pasadena Police Department Report on Saidallah Sirhan, 7-3-68.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Ibid.

39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid.
41.
Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), p. 198.

42.
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, 6-20-68, p. A-3.
43.
LAPD interview with Russell Parsons, 9-25-68.

44.
Ibid.
45.
Authors’ interview with Lawrence Teeter, JFK Lancer Conference, 2006.
46.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 121; Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998.

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

1.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 485, 504-505.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 117.
4.
FBI Los Angeles Field File 58-156, pp. 331-337 (RFK Assassination: L.A.F.O. #56-156: Sub File X-5, vol. 18); FBI Airtel from

New York to Director, 10-15-68
5.
LAPD SUS Report, p. 859, 6-6-68 FBI report regarding Delano police

interview, 6-7-68 FBI interview of Donald Roy Murray. In case Murray had a son or other relative with

a similar name, we want to make it clear that all of our references are to the Roy Donald Murray, born

on 2-18-21 and who died in 3-73.
6.
Ibid FBI interview.
7.
Ibid; According to
American Heritage
, in the mid-1950s, Johnny Rosselli had a lucrative sideline bilking big spenders at Las Vegas casinos—so it’s

not hard to imagine the cash-strapped Rosselli (or his associate) trying to make some extra money after

hearing Murray denounce Bobby in Las Vegas.
8.
David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), pp. 349, 350; Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), p. 160; Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton

& Company, 1995), p. 108; we don’t mean to imply that any of Sirhan’s brothers were involved with in

the contract to kill Bobby.
9.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F.

Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), pp. 131-133.
10.
CIA 104-10133-10071.
11.
CIA 104-10133-10071.

12.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 289.
13.
Ibid, p. 288, 289.
14.
David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), p. 359; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 289; Ovid Demaris,
The Last Mafios
o (New York: Bantam, 1981), pp. 251-54.
15.
Ibid Rappleye and Becker.
16.
For Sirhan, see: William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 224; see also many passages in Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991) and Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995); for James Earl Ray, see HSCA vol. III, pp. 196-206 and William Bradford Huie,
He Slew