9-3-19
Proprio vero, non si finisce mai di imparare.
Pensavo che il caso JFK fosse già abbastanza strano, ma in ogni caso non ho mai creduto realmente alla gran parte delle tesi complittistiche su quella giornata di Dallas.
Ma poi mi sono imbattuto nel documentario di Mazzucco su RFK. Dico subito che dei suoi documentari, è il più corto e il più scarso tecnicamente parlando. Però questo non toglie che sia anche uno dei più inquietanti e ben documentati. Il fatto è questo: RFK è stato ucciso dicono, da un estremista fanatico di origine araba. Questo però non si ricorda di averlo fatto, ha usato una pistola con un massimo di otto colpi, sparando frontalmente a Kennedy.
Però la registrazione audio mostra da 10 a 13 colpi (non tutti sono d'accordo su questa interpretazione, ma a me pare molto convincente), e se questa analisi fatta nel 2007 non convince, sappiate che già allora i colpi erano stati: 3 su RFK, di cui 2 penetrati e rimasti nel corpo; 1 altro che ha trapassato la giacca ma non l'ha colpito; 3 buchi sono stati ritrovati nel soffitto della stanza. Ho dimenticato qualcosa? Sì, 5 persone colpite da altrettanti proiettili. E infine altri due finiti nello stipite di una porta. Quanti sono? Anche ipotizzando qualche 'rimbalzo', abbiamo sicuramente 7 proiettili a segno su altrettante persone (rimasti dentro), 3 buchi nel soffitto, 1 nel corpo di RFK, 1 nella sua giacca, 2 nello stipite. Saranno un pò troppi per essere '8'? Come avrebbero fatto a colpire così tante persone? Anche perché si parla di proiettili calibro 22, non sono mica dei 9 parabellum! E non solo: il colpo fatale a Kennedy fu sparato da meno di 5 cm, DI SPALLE E DAL BASSO. E Shiran era di fronte e alla stessa altezza. E sopratutto, mai a meno di 60 cm, che non è una differenza da poco perché da lì, anche se RFK si fosse voltato, non avrebbe potuto mai lasciare la polvere da sparo come quando accade di tirare a bruciapelo su qualcosa. Chiaro o no?
Per ulteriori approfondimenti, si può consultare le pagine di wikipedia, dove incredibilmente, non fanno il solito cover up con la versione ufficiale dei fatti come la Sacra Bibbia, come è successo per le Torri Gemelle (ma di questo si parlerà un'altra volta).
Sirhan Sirhan - Wikipedia
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories - Wikipedia
Qui c'é anche la testimonianza di un'attrice dell'epoca, presente in cucina al momento della sparatoria/esecuzione, e che afferma di avere sentito più colpi degli otto normalmente accreditati, per giunta provenienti da direzioni diverse, e che i primi 2-3 non colpirono apparentemene Kennedy, mentre poi la 'scarica successiva lo prese in pieno, ma da una direzione diversa.
E non è la sola: altri testimoni non sono stati ascoltati.
But released witness interview summaries show at least four other people told authorities in 1968 that they heard what could have been more than eight shots. The following four witness accounts appear not in FBI reports but in Los Angeles Police Department summaries:
-- Jesse Unruh, who was speaker of the California Assembly at the time, told police that he was within 20 to 30 feet behind Kennedy when suddenly he heard a "crackle" of what he initially thought were exploding firecrackers. "I don't really quite remember how many reports there were," Unruh told the LAPD. "It sounded to me like somewhere between 5 and 10."
-- Frank Mankiewicz, who had been Kennedy's campaign press secretary, told police that he was trying to catch up to the senator when he suddenly heard sounds that also seemed to him to be "a popping of firecrackers." When an LAPD detective asked Mankiewicz how many of the sounds he'd heard, he answered: "It seemed to me I heard a lot. If indeed it had turned out to have been firecrackers, I probably would have said 10. But I'm sure it was less than that."
-- Estelyn Duffy LaHive, who had been a Kennedy supporter, told police that she was standing just outside the kitchen pantry's west entrance when the shooting erupted. "I thought I heard at least about 10 shots," she told the LAPD.
-- Booker Griffin, another Kennedy supporter, told police that he had just entered the pantry through its east entrance and suddenly heard "two quick" shots followed by a slight pause and then what "sounded like it could have been 10 or 12" additional shots.
She told CNN that the 5-foot-5-inch tall Sirhan was propped up on a steam table, several feet ahead of her and slightly to her own left. Rhodes-Hughes says part of her view of Sirhan was obstructed and she could not see the gun in his hand but she says that, as soon as she caught sight of Sirhan, she then heard more shots coming from somewhere past her right side and near Kennedy. She told CNN that at that point she was hearing "much more rapid fire" than she initially had heard.
In his recent analysis of the Pruszynski recording, Philip Van Praag found that some of the tape's 13 captured shot sounds were fired too rapidly, at intervals too close together, for all of the gunshots in the pantry to have come from Sirhan's Iver Johnson revolver alone.
RFK assassination witness tells CNN: There was a second shooter - CNN
E non solo: ecco l'eccezionale testimonianza di una delle vittime di Shiran. 91enne, si è presentato alla corte e ha invocato la necessità di scarcerare il condannato. Erano già 14 volte che la richiesta veniva rifiutata.
Victim: Sirhan Sirhan didn't shoot RFK
Paul Schrade, now 91 years old, was shot in the head on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles while standing alongside Kennedy. : Information Clearing House - ICH
This next document is a federal court declaration from audio expert Philip Van Praag, who Johnson recruited to analyze the Pruszynski Recording.
In this document, Van Praag declares that his analysis of the recording concludes that two guns were fired in the Robert Kennedy shooting.
Van Praag found a total of 13 gunshots in the Pruszynski Recording. Sirhan's one and only gun at the crime scene held no more than eight bullets and Sirhan had no opportunity to reload it.
Van Praag also found what he calls "double-shots" -- meaning two gunshots fired so close together that they could not both have come from Sirhan's Iver Johnson Cadet revolver. Van Praag actually found two sets of these "double-shots".
Additionally, he found that five of the 13 gunshots featured a unique audio resonance characteristic that could not have been produced by Sirhan's gun model, meaning those five shots were fired from a second gun of a different make.
These documents are statements from two witnesses to the Robert Kennedy shooting, both of them assistant maître d's for the Ambassador Hotel. These two men, Karl Uecker and Edward Minasian, escorted Robert Kennedy into the kitchen pantry immediately after the Senator delivered his victory speech in a hotel ballroom for having won the California Primary. Both Uecker and Minasian say Sirhan was in front of Bob Kennedy as the Senator walked toward Sirhan, meaning that Bob and Sirhan were facing each other. Both witnesses say Sirhan was still in front of Bob as Sirhan fired his gun. And both say that after Sirhan fired his first two shots, Uecker quickly pushed Sirhan against a steam table, placing Sirhan in a headlock while grabbing hold of Sirhan’s firing arm, forcing the tip of Sirhan’s gun to point away from where Bob Kennedy was and causing Sirhan to fire blindly his remaining six bullets.
In other words, Sirhan only had full control of his gun at the beginning, when he fired his first two shots, one of which hit me. Sirhan had no opportunity to fire four precisely-placed, point-blank bullets into the back of Bob Kennedy's head or body while he was pinned against that steam table and while he and Bob were facing each other.
This document is the official Robert Kennedy autopsy report summary. It shows that all bullets directed at Senator Kennedy were fired from behind him at point-blank range. As the autopsy states, and as these drawings show, the bullets traveled from back-to-front at steep upward trajectories. One bullet struck Senator Kennedy at the back of the head, two bullets at the right rear armpit and a fourth bullet at the right rear shoulder of his jacket, which passed harmlessly through his jacket.
This document is a memo written by Criminalist Larry Baggett, who investigated the Robert Kennedy shooting for the LAPD. The Baggett memo states that the bullets that hit Senator Kennedy and William Weisel, another shooting victim in the pantry, were not fired from the same gun. The memo also states that the bullet that traveled upward through Bob Kennedy's body and into his neck was not fired from Sirhan's revolver. Such a finding would be proof that Sirhan did not shoot Robert Kennedy.
Mr. Deputy District Attorney, based on all of this information and more, I ask that you inform Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey that I am formally requesting her to order a new investigation of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. I will also be making the same request of Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
Furthermore, Mr. Deputy District Attorney, I ask that you please also tell the District Attorney, Ms. Lacey, that I would appreciate the opportunity to personally meet with her in Los Angeles at her earliest convenience. Would you please convey my message to her?
I hope you will consider all of the accurate details of this crime that I have presented in order for you to accurately determine Sirhan Sirhan's eligibility for parole. If you do this the right way and the just way, I believe you will come to the same conclusion I have: that Sirhan should be released. If justice is not your aim, then of course you will not.
E anche stavolta non è servito a niente: se ne riparla nel 2021.
Proprio vero, non si finisce mai di imparare.
Pensavo che il caso JFK fosse già abbastanza strano, ma in ogni caso non ho mai creduto realmente alla gran parte delle tesi complittistiche su quella giornata di Dallas.
Ma poi mi sono imbattuto nel documentario di Mazzucco su RFK. Dico subito che dei suoi documentari, è il più corto e il più scarso tecnicamente parlando. Però questo non toglie che sia anche uno dei più inquietanti e ben documentati. Il fatto è questo: RFK è stato ucciso dicono, da un estremista fanatico di origine araba. Questo però non si ricorda di averlo fatto, ha usato una pistola con un massimo di otto colpi, sparando frontalmente a Kennedy.
Però la registrazione audio mostra da 10 a 13 colpi (non tutti sono d'accordo su questa interpretazione, ma a me pare molto convincente), e se questa analisi fatta nel 2007 non convince, sappiate che già allora i colpi erano stati: 3 su RFK, di cui 2 penetrati e rimasti nel corpo; 1 altro che ha trapassato la giacca ma non l'ha colpito; 3 buchi sono stati ritrovati nel soffitto della stanza. Ho dimenticato qualcosa? Sì, 5 persone colpite da altrettanti proiettili. E infine altri due finiti nello stipite di una porta. Quanti sono? Anche ipotizzando qualche 'rimbalzo', abbiamo sicuramente 7 proiettili a segno su altrettante persone (rimasti dentro), 3 buchi nel soffitto, 1 nel corpo di RFK, 1 nella sua giacca, 2 nello stipite. Saranno un pò troppi per essere '8'? Come avrebbero fatto a colpire così tante persone? Anche perché si parla di proiettili calibro 22, non sono mica dei 9 parabellum! E non solo: il colpo fatale a Kennedy fu sparato da meno di 5 cm, DI SPALLE E DAL BASSO. E Shiran era di fronte e alla stessa altezza. E sopratutto, mai a meno di 60 cm, che non è una differenza da poco perché da lì, anche se RFK si fosse voltato, non avrebbe potuto mai lasciare la polvere da sparo come quando accade di tirare a bruciapelo su qualcosa. Chiaro o no?
Per ulteriori approfondimenti, si può consultare le pagine di wikipedia, dove incredibilmente, non fanno il solito cover up con la versione ufficiale dei fatti come la Sacra Bibbia, come è successo per le Torri Gemelle (ma di questo si parlerà un'altra volta).
Sirhan Sirhan - Wikipedia
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia
Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories - Wikipedia
Qui c'é anche la testimonianza di un'attrice dell'epoca, presente in cucina al momento della sparatoria/esecuzione, e che afferma di avere sentito più colpi degli otto normalmente accreditati, per giunta provenienti da direzioni diverse, e che i primi 2-3 non colpirono apparentemene Kennedy, mentre poi la 'scarica successiva lo prese in pieno, ma da una direzione diversa.
E non è la sola: altri testimoni non sono stati ascoltati.
But released witness interview summaries show at least four other people told authorities in 1968 that they heard what could have been more than eight shots. The following four witness accounts appear not in FBI reports but in Los Angeles Police Department summaries:
-- Jesse Unruh, who was speaker of the California Assembly at the time, told police that he was within 20 to 30 feet behind Kennedy when suddenly he heard a "crackle" of what he initially thought were exploding firecrackers. "I don't really quite remember how many reports there were," Unruh told the LAPD. "It sounded to me like somewhere between 5 and 10."
-- Frank Mankiewicz, who had been Kennedy's campaign press secretary, told police that he was trying to catch up to the senator when he suddenly heard sounds that also seemed to him to be "a popping of firecrackers." When an LAPD detective asked Mankiewicz how many of the sounds he'd heard, he answered: "It seemed to me I heard a lot. If indeed it had turned out to have been firecrackers, I probably would have said 10. But I'm sure it was less than that."
-- Estelyn Duffy LaHive, who had been a Kennedy supporter, told police that she was standing just outside the kitchen pantry's west entrance when the shooting erupted. "I thought I heard at least about 10 shots," she told the LAPD.
-- Booker Griffin, another Kennedy supporter, told police that he had just entered the pantry through its east entrance and suddenly heard "two quick" shots followed by a slight pause and then what "sounded like it could have been 10 or 12" additional shots.
She told CNN that the 5-foot-5-inch tall Sirhan was propped up on a steam table, several feet ahead of her and slightly to her own left. Rhodes-Hughes says part of her view of Sirhan was obstructed and she could not see the gun in his hand but she says that, as soon as she caught sight of Sirhan, she then heard more shots coming from somewhere past her right side and near Kennedy. She told CNN that at that point she was hearing "much more rapid fire" than she initially had heard.
In his recent analysis of the Pruszynski recording, Philip Van Praag found that some of the tape's 13 captured shot sounds were fired too rapidly, at intervals too close together, for all of the gunshots in the pantry to have come from Sirhan's Iver Johnson revolver alone.
RFK assassination witness tells CNN: There was a second shooter - CNN
E non solo: ecco l'eccezionale testimonianza di una delle vittime di Shiran. 91enne, si è presentato alla corte e ha invocato la necessità di scarcerare il condannato. Erano già 14 volte che la richiesta veniva rifiutata.
Victim: Sirhan Sirhan didn't shoot RFK
Paul Schrade, now 91 years old, was shot in the head on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles while standing alongside Kennedy. : Information Clearing House - ICH
This next document is a federal court declaration from audio expert Philip Van Praag, who Johnson recruited to analyze the Pruszynski Recording.
In this document, Van Praag declares that his analysis of the recording concludes that two guns were fired in the Robert Kennedy shooting.
Van Praag found a total of 13 gunshots in the Pruszynski Recording. Sirhan's one and only gun at the crime scene held no more than eight bullets and Sirhan had no opportunity to reload it.
Van Praag also found what he calls "double-shots" -- meaning two gunshots fired so close together that they could not both have come from Sirhan's Iver Johnson Cadet revolver. Van Praag actually found two sets of these "double-shots".
Additionally, he found that five of the 13 gunshots featured a unique audio resonance characteristic that could not have been produced by Sirhan's gun model, meaning those five shots were fired from a second gun of a different make.
These documents are statements from two witnesses to the Robert Kennedy shooting, both of them assistant maître d's for the Ambassador Hotel. These two men, Karl Uecker and Edward Minasian, escorted Robert Kennedy into the kitchen pantry immediately after the Senator delivered his victory speech in a hotel ballroom for having won the California Primary. Both Uecker and Minasian say Sirhan was in front of Bob Kennedy as the Senator walked toward Sirhan, meaning that Bob and Sirhan were facing each other. Both witnesses say Sirhan was still in front of Bob as Sirhan fired his gun. And both say that after Sirhan fired his first two shots, Uecker quickly pushed Sirhan against a steam table, placing Sirhan in a headlock while grabbing hold of Sirhan’s firing arm, forcing the tip of Sirhan’s gun to point away from where Bob Kennedy was and causing Sirhan to fire blindly his remaining six bullets.
In other words, Sirhan only had full control of his gun at the beginning, when he fired his first two shots, one of which hit me. Sirhan had no opportunity to fire four precisely-placed, point-blank bullets into the back of Bob Kennedy's head or body while he was pinned against that steam table and while he and Bob were facing each other.
This document is the official Robert Kennedy autopsy report summary. It shows that all bullets directed at Senator Kennedy were fired from behind him at point-blank range. As the autopsy states, and as these drawings show, the bullets traveled from back-to-front at steep upward trajectories. One bullet struck Senator Kennedy at the back of the head, two bullets at the right rear armpit and a fourth bullet at the right rear shoulder of his jacket, which passed harmlessly through his jacket.
This document is a memo written by Criminalist Larry Baggett, who investigated the Robert Kennedy shooting for the LAPD. The Baggett memo states that the bullets that hit Senator Kennedy and William Weisel, another shooting victim in the pantry, were not fired from the same gun. The memo also states that the bullet that traveled upward through Bob Kennedy's body and into his neck was not fired from Sirhan's revolver. Such a finding would be proof that Sirhan did not shoot Robert Kennedy.
Mr. Deputy District Attorney, based on all of this information and more, I ask that you inform Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey that I am formally requesting her to order a new investigation of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. I will also be making the same request of Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
Furthermore, Mr. Deputy District Attorney, I ask that you please also tell the District Attorney, Ms. Lacey, that I would appreciate the opportunity to personally meet with her in Los Angeles at her earliest convenience. Would you please convey my message to her?
I hope you will consider all of the accurate details of this crime that I have presented in order for you to accurately determine Sirhan Sirhan's eligibility for parole. If you do this the right way and the just way, I believe you will come to the same conclusion I have: that Sirhan should be released. If justice is not your aim, then of course you will not.
E anche stavolta non è servito a niente: se ne riparla nel 2021.