- Paperback: 362 pages
- Publisher: S.P.I. Books (Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1561713244
- ISBN-13: 978-1561713240
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 276,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Really interesting book that above everything, highlights the progress that has been made with forensics etc. Makes you wonder what would be the result if the same situation happened today. Enjoyed reading it.
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An Expose of the Cover-Up of the Conspiracy
28 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
Philip H. Melanson is a professor of political science and a specialist in the study of political violence. This book is an authoritative expose of brazen official manipulation of the legal process used to cover-up the conspiracy to kill RFK. The numerous glaring and unanswered questions in this case, with the simplistic official solution, caused the author to research for additional unexamined evidence. He spent many years investigating the facts, interviewed dozens of witnesses, law enforcement officials and other sources, and analyzed hundreds of LAPD and FBI files released by 1991.
Philip H. Melanson provides evidence that Sirhan did not act alone, and, the official investigation authorities (LAPD, FBI) covered up evidence that suggested conspiracy (p.4). He was the first author to have access to most of the existing LAPD files on the case. He and his team found that the LAPD had altered, suppressed, and destroyed vital evidence in the case (p.6).
The investigation assumed a "lone gunman" immediately. The trial was only concerned with Sirhan's state of mind (pp.24-25). The number of shots fired, the bullets matched to the wrong gun, were all skipped over. The LAPD's conclusions, its methods and its competence were not tested in an adversarial proceeding. The tapes of Sirhan's interrogations were never released to the defense. The profound discrepancies and conflicts in the evidence were suppressed or ignored by the LAPD and were never addressed by the judicial process.
What made this case so hot that the 1997 Congressional Investigation wouldn't touch it? Will the assassination of RFK ever be reinvestigated by a Congressional Committee? We've also learned a lot since 1991 about the LAPD and the FBI: the Trial of OJ Simpson, and the Inspector General's report on the FBI. (Read "Tainting Evidence: Inside the FBI Crime Lab Scandals" by Kelly and Wearnes.)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding!
14 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover
RFK's assassination has been given short shrift by book publishers despite there being just as much evidence of a conspiracy as there is in his brother's murder. Philip Melanson attempts to answer many of the questions in this updated version of a previous work on the subject and succeeds admirably. Melanson will leave no doubt that there was a conspiracy and that the LAPD covered it up.
This is quite possibly the definitive work on the RFK assassination and definitely worth picking up.
This is quite possibly the definitive work on the RFK assassination and definitely worth picking up.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
"Saw War And Tried To Stop It"
9 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
When some tired old celebrity or politician expires the media is replete with somber expressions like, "We have lost a great ..." etc., but with the death of Professor Melanson those of us who refused to be deceived about the circumstances and effects--even today--of the cycle of 60's assassinations really have lost an essential voice: firm, clear and incisive. I quote Edward Kennedy's eulogy with the notion that those researchers like Melanson who have sought the truth about our history also, as a consequence, were looking for a better world, one with a citizenry less prone to deceive and be deceived.
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