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Title: Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination by William Klaber, Philip H. Melanson, Samuel Dash ISBN: 0-312-96607-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: an okay book that gets of topic a little....
Comment: i was kinda dissapointed in this book. the book looks awsome from the picture above, then you start reading it, and it kinda dissapoints you. the book is almost way in depth that you get lost. it mostly talks about the lawyers and how they got on, what they did during the trial, how Sirhan Sirhan can't remember jack squat from the assassaintion, and how this lawyer had another case going on and this and that. it's pretty dissapointing in my opinion. i'm gonna read it again though, more carefully. it's just that you get worn out that's all. it's like watching a 4 hour version of the movie Mars Attacks. anyway, if your'e interested in the RFK assassination, then buy the book. i just wish it would talk more about the actuall assassination that's all.

oh yeah, one more thing i can't understand at all. the book says that Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer in his opening statement says that he knows Sirhan killed RFK. but he was gonna prove that at the time he was under a transe. he was there pyshically, but not mentally. ha ha ha....a defense lawyer saying that when the evidence was clear that Bobby had a bullet hole in the back of his head when some 65+ witnesses stated that Sirhan fired from only the front. how can that be? 65+ witnesses see Sirhan fire at Bobby from the front, he's got a hole in the back of his head, nothing from the front, and the defense lawyer says his defendent is guilty of killing the would be 37th President????

alot of mystery surrounding this assassination. read the book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Playground twists.
Comment: In-depth research into Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel,L.A,on California's primary election night in 1968....one of those books that never leaves the fingers,all angles get covered,all bases are touched.

The books highlight,for me,is when it dissects Thane Eugene Cesar's role in the whole game. He was stationed directly behind Kennedy during the shooting & had admitted drawing his gun--& even privately admitted firing it. Cesar was assigned to guard the Ambassador hotel on the night of June 4 by the Ace Guard Service,a firm that had protected the U.S National Bank in San Diego; the bank collapsed in 1973 following several dealings with organized crime figures. Later on,as certain researchers uncovered more strange "alleged" Mafia connections to the shooting,a bizarre campaign of terror unfolded. Wald Emerson,a financial backer of research on the case,recieved threatening phone calls. The wife of attorney Godfrey Isaacs,who assisted the probe,died under mysterious circumstances. Journalist Theodore Charach,a leading investigator of the case who witnessed Bobby's killing,was accosted with a knife & asked to hand over evidence. His assistant,Betty Dryer,was knifed. And further incidents were described by Charach: "You see,the(Ambassador)hotel had Mafia connections too. Mr. Gardner,who was in charge of security,he disappeared. Now I don't know whether he's in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean,or where he is,but I haven't been able,you know,to locate him. And then another man,who was overall operations director,he commited suicide,& of course the files were destroyed,we found out,at the Ambassador Hotel". The Ambassador Hotel,in fact,had had mob ties since the 1940's,when gangster Mickey Cohen ran a major gambling operation there with some of it's personnel.

Fascinating insinuations of Mafia contacts,many reported attacks on those close to the assassination probe,etc,all support a reasonable presumption of Mob involvement in the murder...(I was stunned).

An incredible documentation,well worth the investment.

Rating: 4
Summary: Extremely interesting, but it's still a mystery...
Comment: The authors provide us with what is probably the most complete investigation of the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and it is almost unbelievable at times how badly his defense team acted (or didn't act at all) on Sirhan's behalf. The description of the destruction of the evidence by the police is also something you have to read to believe. The procedures that they followed in investigating this case are suspect, and it there is so little left that it makes you wonder if there really was (dare I say it) a cover-up?

Sirhan remains an enigma, still claiming no memory of the events. The ballistic evidence contradicts that he acted alone, but with so much of the evidence missing, it is hard to make a case for his innocence. A conspiracy? A cover-up? Another case where we probably will never know the truth...