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Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and the Failure of American Justice
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (1997)
Authors: William Klaber, Philip H. Melanson, and Samuel Dash
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A returning student's review
This book was extremely enlightening and engrossing. It reveals many startling details about an assassination that in the public's mind is an open and shut case. This book will make you re-examine what you think you know about the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. It is a fascinating and disturbing look into the mishandling of the investigation as well as the trial of Sirhan Sirhan.

Surely Surly Sirhan
Klaber stands alone in his remarkable attention to detail and his insightful intuition as he dissects Sirhan, the assassination and all the people and events surrounding it. Investigative journalism at its finest; with no sides taken, no leaf unturned/unflipped/unanalyzed and certainly no minds unchallenged.

Klaber's wired-in work makes all the others' works putter off into nattering nabobs of nonsensical noise as he delicately delves into this June 4, 1968 seminal tragedy. Klaber kooks the krime and katers to only the most diskriminating kats.

What's Klaber writing about now?

A Must Read
I literally tore through this book. I couldn't put it down. Fascinating and frustrating with regards to the failure of the justice system.


Shadow Play: The Untold Story of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
Published in Paperback by St Martins Mass Market Paper (1998)
Authors: William Klaber, Philip H. Melanson, and Samuel Dash
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When we buy we have to read this for sure
If you have money. Read this book. No matter what color you are or even if you abuse your books. I will recommend JFK the movie who was named in a lawsuit as son of the man who saved RFK and we love him. Hail to the Chief RFK. You errored and loved man who knew it, I think you can guess what I mean. Good k.

an okay book that gets of topic a little....
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.

Playground twists.
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.


Working in a War Zone : Cashing in Safely After the Shooting Stops
Published in Paperback by Paladin Press (2002)
Author: Jeff Morris
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Eavesdroppers
Published in Hardcover by DaCapo Press (1971)
Author: Samuel Dash
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