It is well-noted that Sirhan's rather meek and pathetic nature makes him his own worst enemy sometimes; it is also well noted that Frost is NOT AT ALL sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people.
It is of course physically impossible for Sirhan to have shot and killed Bobby Kennedy, for reasons which are well-recorded previously.
But the nature of Sirhan's personality, coupled with his extreme suggestibility produced a lengthy period during the 1980s during which he allowed himself to be persuaded that he must have done it; or at least, his desperation to be released led him to say anything he could in order to gain his release - a key basic element of any parole board is to demonstrate remorse, and there have been numerous instances where wrongly convicted men and women have been denied parole for continuing to protest their innocence, and "refusing to accept responsibility" for the act.
In Sirhan's case, he has the additional problem of having no memory of, nor being able to associate himself consciously or emotionally with the consequences of his actions and those of the people around him, manipulating him to take the fall.
He can't take responsibility for it, because he can't remember it; equally, he can't experience feelings of remorse or regret because he didn't do it and his actions do not relate to his choices - all he is able to experience emotionally is feeling sorry for himself and that comes off as pathetic and self pitying.
But pity and mercy is what he deserves - Sirhan is a victim.
The story of the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, told in music and pictures
Picutres which Life Magazine declined to publish until 2006.
It's a really complete and accyrate accounting of that murder - Sirhan Sirhan doesn't feature in it.
Thane Eugene Caser, Michael Wein and the LAPD, however, do.
RFK 2012 Evidence of Sirhan Sirhan's Actual Innocence of First Degree Murder from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
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