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Mar. 1, 2010

Hindsight


"Did you ... shoot Senator Kennedy?"

"Yes, sir," was Sirhan Sirhan's emphatic response when his own lawyer, Grant Cooper, posed the question under direct examination at trial in March 1969 for the death of presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy.

Eyewitnesses saw Sirhan fire the gun at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel while shouting "Kennedy, you son of a bitch!" But his defense was "diminished ...

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