Corona Cork Film Festival - R.F.K. Must Die -The Assassination Of Bobby Kennedy

June 5th, 1968: Robert Kennedy wins the California democratic primary and is set to challenge Nixon for the White House. Moments later, he is assassinated by 24 year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. But even under hypnosis, Sirhan has never been able to remember the shooting and leading psychiatrists believe he was a ‘Manchurian Candidate’, hypnotically programmed to kill Kennedy.

As Kennedy lies dying on the pantry floor, Sirhan is arrested as the lone assassin. He carries the motive in his shirt-pocket (a clipping about Kennedy’s plans to sell bombers to Israel) and notebooks at his house seem to incriminate him. But the autopsy report suggests Sirhan could not have fired the shots that killed Kennedy. Witnesses place Sirhan’s gun several feet in front of Kennedy, but the fatal bullet is fired from one inch behind. And more bullet-holes are found in the pantry than Sirhan’s gun can hold, suggesting a second gunman is involved. - Shane O’Sullivan, The Guardian

Now, newly discovered film and photographs appear to show three senior CIA operatives at the crime scene, suggesting the CIA was behind the assassination.

A disturbing new investigative documentary based on O’Sullivan’s reports for BBC Newsnight and The Guardian.