What do you think?
Rate this book
A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
In A Lie Too Big to Fail , longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public. Pease reveals how the trial was essentially a sham, and how the prosecution did not dare to follow where the evidence led.
A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing readers to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.
A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing readers to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.
512 pages, Hardcover
First published December 18, 2018
210 people are currently reading
1268 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 53 reviews
June 20, 2024
Ms. Pease has written a thoroughly researched work on the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
She provides interviews of the witnesses as recorded shortly after the event. She then includes several of her interviews with these same witnesses years later. Ms. Pease has provided the documents from the State of California Archives regarding the LAPD, the LA Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI investigations. Her research includes that of the trial, guilty verdict and subsequent testing of Sirhan Sirhan in prison years later.
Her research and documentary evidence prove that Sirhan could NOT have killed the senator as Sirhan was IN FRONT of the senator. All wounds to Senator Kennedy were received from the BACK as detailed in the autopsy made public. Also, the evidence proves that the bullets in storage could not have been fired by the gun Sirhan used.
Here is a book that tries to verify each statement and conclusion with solid evidence. Most of this evidence has been hidden from the public for years. In presenting the story of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ms. Pease has provided a vital history of the 1950’s, 1960’s and that of the Central Intelligence Agency during the same time.
This work should be in every public library and required reading for all high school and college students.
Every adult should read this book within the next twelve months.
A truly excellent work.
FIVE STARS!
She provides interviews of the witnesses as recorded shortly after the event. She then includes several of her interviews with these same witnesses years later. Ms. Pease has provided the documents from the State of California Archives regarding the LAPD, the LA Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI investigations. Her research includes that of the trial, guilty verdict and subsequent testing of Sirhan Sirhan in prison years later.
Her research and documentary evidence prove that Sirhan could NOT have killed the senator as Sirhan was IN FRONT of the senator. All wounds to Senator Kennedy were received from the BACK as detailed in the autopsy made public. Also, the evidence proves that the bullets in storage could not have been fired by the gun Sirhan used.
Here is a book that tries to verify each statement and conclusion with solid evidence. Most of this evidence has been hidden from the public for years. In presenting the story of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ms. Pease has provided a vital history of the 1950’s, 1960’s and that of the Central Intelligence Agency during the same time.
This work should be in every public library and required reading for all high school and college students.
Every adult should read this book within the next twelve months.
A truly excellent work.
FIVE STARS!
August 29, 2021
Astounding detailed undeniable proof of the murder of RFK by CIA operative who used MKULTRA control to set up Sirhan B Sirhan. If you believe those who claim a conspiracy this big could never fail to escape the scrutiny of the main stream media and forces of Law and order - this should cure you of that sad delusion. Shattering information told in gripping prose with a great narrator.
January 8, 2019
"I stood on the shoulders of giants when I started to look into this case."
I have read everything from Kaiser, Turner/Christian, Melanson, O'Sullivan, Faura to Tate/Johnson and if Lisa Pease has stood on these shoulders, she has gained a clear unobstructed view of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. She writes, "That's why I wrote this book. I knew no journalist would give up 25 years of their life to learn the truth about this event. But the way the CIA took over America in the 1960's is the story of our time, and too few recognise this."
James W. Douglass writes the definitive review on the rear cover of this book. "Lisa Pease has written the magnum opus of RFK assassination research...Pease presents here the overwhelming case for the defendant's innocence--and the government's guilt--that the jury and public were blocked from hearing...This was indeed a lie too big to fail...until now."
What you go and do?
You go and give the boy a gun.
Now there ain't no place to run to,
ain't no place to run.
Now we'll all be at his mercy
if he decides to hunt us down,
'cause there ain't no place to run to
ain't no place to run.
And if he finds himself to be
a reflection of us all,
bang bang bang
he'll shoot us down.
Before you can raise your eyes to read
the writing on the wall,
bang bang bang
he'll shoot you down.
I have read everything from Kaiser, Turner/Christian, Melanson, O'Sullivan, Faura to Tate/Johnson and if Lisa Pease has stood on these shoulders, she has gained a clear unobstructed view of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. She writes, "That's why I wrote this book. I knew no journalist would give up 25 years of their life to learn the truth about this event. But the way the CIA took over America in the 1960's is the story of our time, and too few recognise this."
James W. Douglass writes the definitive review on the rear cover of this book. "Lisa Pease has written the magnum opus of RFK assassination research...Pease presents here the overwhelming case for the defendant's innocence--and the government's guilt--that the jury and public were blocked from hearing...This was indeed a lie too big to fail...until now."
What you go and do?
You go and give the boy a gun.
Now there ain't no place to run to,
ain't no place to run.
Now we'll all be at his mercy
if he decides to hunt us down,
'cause there ain't no place to run to
ain't no place to run.
And if he finds himself to be
a reflection of us all,
bang bang bang
he'll shoot us down.
Before you can raise your eyes to read
the writing on the wall,
bang bang bang
he'll shoot you down.
February 21, 2019
This is a very important book that everyone should read. History should reflect the truth and not a lie and most Americans do not know the truth about the RFK Assassination.
August 26, 2024
Never before heard of this person. HAVE heard of James DiEugenio, mentioned on Amazon's blurb but not here for whatever reason, even tho it notes he wrote the intro.
He's a JFK as well as RFK assassination conspiracy theorist. Nutbar. More here.
And, in 2018, I covered in detail RFK assassination conspiracy theory nutjobs.
He's a JFK as well as RFK assassination conspiracy theorist. Nutbar. More here.
And, in 2018, I covered in detail RFK assassination conspiracy theory nutjobs.
February 15, 2019
Just finished the incredible read ‘A Lie Too Big To Fail’ by Lisa Pease. I love this book! She wrote “When we stand together and speak the truth, all missions become possible”. Thank you for writing this book. We can’t bring Bobby back, but together, we can #FreeSirhan
April 21, 2019
I knew for a while that there were serious issues with the RFK assassination and incredible lack of honesty by those entities that should have been doing their job on the investigation. The author has pulled all of that research into one comprehensive volume and made it accessible to everyone. There is more than enough in this volume to convince even the dimmest person that Sirhan did not do this killing - and if nothing else, certainly did not do it alone. Very well worth reading.
January 23, 2019
Informative but a TON OF:
Typos, all over the place. Some sentences repeated.
Great info. The author is left leaning and it would of been nice if she was was more of a Centrist or Independent.
Submitted by a former Republican now Independent who hates the Deep State both left and right.
Typos, all over the place. Some sentences repeated.
Great info. The author is left leaning and it would of been nice if she was was more of a Centrist or Independent.
Submitted by a former Republican now Independent who hates the Deep State both left and right.
February 10, 2021
The truth is out there. If nothing else, read the last chapter.
February 16, 2019
What more do you want from an analysis of a controversial but key historical event in living memory? The book is honest, meticulously sourced, and objective. It is amazing how easily this perspective clearly challenges the accepted and prevailing idea that Sirhan shot and killed Kennedy. As the author described, other books and articles have pointed out flaws with the mainstream lie. But no other book has gone as far with putting together the pieces of evidence into a cogent picture. Let it be clear, however, that the facts are presented for your interpretation, and not as part of a polemic, as the protectors of the lie might have you believe via cries of "conspiracy theory". So one question that occurred to this reader, based on the facts presented, was why would the planners of the assassination have knowingly constructed a scenario that was more than likely to result in the obviously contradictory evidence of having more bullets found on the scene than could have been accounted for as having come from their patsy's gun? I don't have an answer. Could it be that the planned conditions of the plot were constructed to allow more than one possible outcome scenario which would then further allow for unknown variables to play out until a public acceptance could be coherently constructed around the controllable facts? If true, then its conceivable that only a handful of people were needed to guide a narrowing of belief in what the evidence could possibly be suggesting, given the untraceable and invisible effect of hypnotic control.
April 17, 2021
This wasn’t an easy read but I hung in there because I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I didn’t know any of this. I was one of the gullible people who thought that the LAPD had their act together and got this resolved fast and easy. Anything but that. LAPD made the DallasPD look great.
Such important historical events that were handled so poorly.
Such important historical events that were handled so poorly.
January 23, 2024
I've read several books on the JFK assassination, but this was my first on rfk. Some of the ideas seemed a little far fetched, but I'm sure that's what people said about mk ultra and Castro's exploding cigars, so who knows? Incredibly well researched and very fun and engaging!
Want to read
March 25, 2025“A Lie Too Big To Fail by longtime journalist and conspiracy researcher Lisa Pease ran 500 pages and covered the events of that fatal California evening in exhaustive detail, winning the endorsements of filmmaker Oliver Stone and renowned JFK researcher James W. Douglass. When I read it a few months ago, I found the huge volume of material quite useful but felt that it relied too heavily upon the recollections of eyewitnesses, which can easily grow attenuated over the decades…”
-Ron Unz, “RFK Jr. vs. I.F. Stone on the Kennedy Assassinations”, July 31, 2023
-Ron Unz, “RFK Jr. vs. I.F. Stone on the Kennedy Assassinations”, July 31, 2023
December 13, 2020
While reading James Ellroy's "Underworld USA" trilogy my interest grew so intense that I started reading Probe Magazines' amazing compendium book "The Assassinations" co-authored by Lisa Pease. Only halfway through that, I checked my library to see what else the authors had written, and so I found and ordered "A Lie To Big To Fail."
Once I started reading this thoroughly engrossing book, I found it hard to put down, because it reads like a thriller, but with gravely serious historical ramifications.
I consider Lisa Pease to be a hero for what she has done, courageously seeking the truth, the facts, and logically revealing what she has found with clear explanations and well-reasoned arguments.
Thank you Lisa Pease for your courage, and investigative tenacity!
Intelligent people know that the word "conspiracy" simply means an illegal plan or plot between two or more people. (i.e. Planning a crime.)
Yet the word has acquired a connotation as meaning crazy or unfounded. This spin has served actual criminals and conspirators (including those in positions of power and government) VERY well.
The ramifications need to be discussed.
The bottom line is we have MULTIPLE Intelligence Agencies that WE (in the US) PAY for and they are COMPLETELY UNACCOUNTABLE to anyone but themselves.
Maybe intelligence agencies are necessary to maintain our Democracy, maybe up to a certain extent. If protecting the Democracy were the only agenda, and if there was oversight from elected officials and IF they were held accountable for their diabolical actions, then we could have a system that works for us all. Instead we have "LAW Enforcement" agencies that ROUTINELY break and violate Federal and international laws, pursuing special, wealthy, and corporate interests for the Right.
The spectrum of "left" and "right" wing politics changed after the assassinations of JFK, Malcom X, MLK Jr, and RFK. What we now call the "left" is only the left-edge of the right.
Who benefitted from those assassinations the most?
Highly recommended!
#FreeSirhan
Once I started reading this thoroughly engrossing book, I found it hard to put down, because it reads like a thriller, but with gravely serious historical ramifications.
I consider Lisa Pease to be a hero for what she has done, courageously seeking the truth, the facts, and logically revealing what she has found with clear explanations and well-reasoned arguments.
Thank you Lisa Pease for your courage, and investigative tenacity!
Intelligent people know that the word "conspiracy" simply means an illegal plan or plot between two or more people. (i.e. Planning a crime.)
Yet the word has acquired a connotation as meaning crazy or unfounded. This spin has served actual criminals and conspirators (including those in positions of power and government) VERY well.
The ramifications need to be discussed.
The bottom line is we have MULTIPLE Intelligence Agencies that WE (in the US) PAY for and they are COMPLETELY UNACCOUNTABLE to anyone but themselves.
Maybe intelligence agencies are necessary to maintain our Democracy, maybe up to a certain extent. If protecting the Democracy were the only agenda, and if there was oversight from elected officials and IF they were held accountable for their diabolical actions, then we could have a system that works for us all. Instead we have "LAW Enforcement" agencies that ROUTINELY break and violate Federal and international laws, pursuing special, wealthy, and corporate interests for the Right.
The spectrum of "left" and "right" wing politics changed after the assassinations of JFK, Malcom X, MLK Jr, and RFK. What we now call the "left" is only the left-edge of the right.
Who benefitted from those assassinations the most?
Highly recommended!
#FreeSirhan
November 8, 2022
A thoroughly researched book that details the events surrounding the assassination of Robert F Kennedy and the subsequent failings of the subsequent investigation.
Pease lays out in minute detail exactly why Sirhan did not kill RFK and who most likely did.
I could not put it down
Pease lays out in minute detail exactly why Sirhan did not kill RFK and who most likely did.
I could not put it down
May 2, 2021
#FreeSirhan
Anecdotal; RFK Jr.is 7mon/10 days older than I am.
Tues 6/4/68, 8 school days away from the end of 7th grade. 13yo. It was late, I was asleep in bed; I was awoken by my dog Clyde jumping on my bed, hearing my parents’ yelling and shouting, thinking they were having another late night argument, I got up to let the dog out of my room. I heard my dad’s pleading voice, “Jesus Christ all mighty”, my mom was sobbing, “They shot Bobby oh my God” .Hearing my name , I thought WTF , halfway awake. down the hallway. By this time, I was in the dining room, The phone rang, Both my parents had tears in their eyes. As my mom answered phone, my dad told me, “They shot Bobby Kennedy”
And that’s how I remember that night.
“THEY”
I read this after reading “JFK; and The Unspeakable “ Lisa’s meticulous research goes way way down the rabbit hole, navigating through the labyrinthine maze of characters’ background histories, circumstantial Evidence, verbatim police witness interviews , and then compares and contrasts the official story with what happened.
My reading list is booked for the rest of the year, thanks to Lisa providing sources and suggesting books for further interest.
This took place during my childhood;
Thurs 4/4/68 6pm MLK
Sunday 2/21/65 10 yo 12:15 pm (pst) Malcome X
Sunday morning 11/24/63 9:21am , 9yo, Oswald live on TV
Friday Morning 11/22/63 11:30am (pst), coming in from lunch recess, saw my teacher crying hugging another teacher..School was canceled the rest of the day.
As Lisa states, The CIA took over America in a slow coup during the 1960’s
Anecdotal; RFK Jr.is 7mon/10 days older than I am.
Tues 6/4/68, 8 school days away from the end of 7th grade. 13yo. It was late, I was asleep in bed; I was awoken by my dog Clyde jumping on my bed, hearing my parents’ yelling and shouting, thinking they were having another late night argument, I got up to let the dog out of my room. I heard my dad’s pleading voice, “Jesus Christ all mighty”, my mom was sobbing, “They shot Bobby oh my God” .Hearing my name , I thought WTF , halfway awake. down the hallway. By this time, I was in the dining room, The phone rang, Both my parents had tears in their eyes. As my mom answered phone, my dad told me, “They shot Bobby Kennedy”
And that’s how I remember that night.
“THEY”
I read this after reading “JFK; and The Unspeakable “ Lisa’s meticulous research goes way way down the rabbit hole, navigating through the labyrinthine maze of characters’ background histories, circumstantial Evidence, verbatim police witness interviews , and then compares and contrasts the official story with what happened.
My reading list is booked for the rest of the year, thanks to Lisa providing sources and suggesting books for further interest.
This took place during my childhood;
Thurs 4/4/68 6pm MLK
Sunday 2/21/65 10 yo 12:15 pm (pst) Malcome X
Sunday morning 11/24/63 9:21am , 9yo, Oswald live on TV
Friday Morning 11/22/63 11:30am (pst), coming in from lunch recess, saw my teacher crying hugging another teacher..School was canceled the rest of the day.
As Lisa states, The CIA took over America in a slow coup during the 1960’s
January 5, 2020
Ms. Pease has done extensive research for A Lie Too Big to Fail. Having read some other books on the same subject, I was already familiar with some of the information. However this book goes into other details not covered elsewhere.
I would say, as someone else mentioned, this is poorly edited. There are a number of typographical errors and those are a bit annoying but should not subtract from the import. Also, in (perhaps) the first two-thirds of the text Ms Pease makes connections but then fails to complete the implied conclusion.
The author does indeed make a clear case that Sirhan B. Sirhan is not the one responsible for the death of Senator Kennedy. She offers plausible alternate villains. The person who actually fired the weapon is far less important than those who arranged the assassination. This is also the case with the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Each of those crimes seem to have similar operational details and are aimed at those who espouse similar ideas. Each of these victims wanted to bring an end to international military conflict, especially Viet Nam, contemporary with their death. Since that time there has been only one president who has not pursued one or another form of imperialism.
I would say, as someone else mentioned, this is poorly edited. There are a number of typographical errors and those are a bit annoying but should not subtract from the import. Also, in (perhaps) the first two-thirds of the text Ms Pease makes connections but then fails to complete the implied conclusion.
The author does indeed make a clear case that Sirhan B. Sirhan is not the one responsible for the death of Senator Kennedy. She offers plausible alternate villains. The person who actually fired the weapon is far less important than those who arranged the assassination. This is also the case with the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Each of those crimes seem to have similar operational details and are aimed at those who espouse similar ideas. Each of these victims wanted to bring an end to international military conflict, especially Viet Nam, contemporary with their death. Since that time there has been only one president who has not pursued one or another form of imperialism.
February 10, 2019
Head still spinning & buzzing but the main takeway for now is that it was even better than I hoped and I hope that the recent Washington Post article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/histor...) begins a snowball effect in terms of visibility.
The meat & potatoes in terms of the assassination mechanics were already ridiculously well done, but the chapters Mind Games and Mission: Possible are just... wow. I got quite emotional, actually. The description of the evolution of mind control techniques in Mind Games is quite horrific and seriously creeped me out like a horror novel. The last chapter is simply essential historical synthesis and revisionist history at it best.
This assassination was even more blatantly a conspiracy than the JFK case.
My hat is off to you, Lisa Pease.
The meat & potatoes in terms of the assassination mechanics were already ridiculously well done, but the chapters Mind Games and Mission: Possible are just... wow. I got quite emotional, actually. The description of the evolution of mind control techniques in Mind Games is quite horrific and seriously creeped me out like a horror novel. The last chapter is simply essential historical synthesis and revisionist history at it best.
This assassination was even more blatantly a conspiracy than the JFK case.
My hat is off to you, Lisa Pease.
December 11, 2019
A Lie To Big Too Fail (2019) by Lisa Pease. The be-all, end-all, last word on the RFK assassination June, 1968 in L.A. Lot's of space given to CIA MK-Ultra mind control, and, she lays out Shirhans path from getting injured by the horse to recovery/rehab stays in the hospital to the day & night of the assassination. Very cool book...but, needed more on the identity of the-girl-in-the-polka-dotted-dress because she is a major part of the case. 4.5 outa 5.0.
August 14, 2021
One of this book's strengths and weaknesses was its abundance of technical details. On the one hand, it seems clear that the author was extremely thorough in her research, but on the other, some of the technical details were difficult to follow, as I lacked expertise in those areas. That being said, this book was so interesting, compelling, and also shocking. I also admit that, while some parts seemed hard to believe, it was also convincing. This was a good read.
April 1, 2022
Detailed research, passionately written.
The quality of writing occasionally needs improving, as also does some of the extrapolated conclusions.
Overall, an interesting and revelatory read.
Here conclusion and suggestions are sincere and laudable.
Recommended to anyone interested in American politics.
The quality of writing occasionally needs improving, as also does some of the extrapolated conclusions.
Overall, an interesting and revelatory read.
Here conclusion and suggestions are sincere and laudable.
Recommended to anyone interested in American politics.
March 3, 2019
Truth can set you free, but not always.
A well titled book with full documentation. This well take more than one reading to fully absorb the entangled web of deception created by the agent spiders of self-interest.
A well titled book with full documentation. This well take more than one reading to fully absorb the entangled web of deception created by the agent spiders of self-interest.
March 12, 2020
If you want to learn about the assassination of RFK, read this book.
This is an extraordinary tale, very detailed, well researched and brilliantly written.
I just wonder how on earth Sirhan is still in jail when he clearly didn't fire the fatal shots.
This is an extraordinary tale, very detailed, well researched and brilliantly written.
I just wonder how on earth Sirhan is still in jail when he clearly didn't fire the fatal shots.
October 19, 2020
What the fuck. What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK!??!?!
lol omg it has a quote from "The Last Jedi" in the last pages, sick.
If you can finish this book and don't start wearing tinfoil hats afterwards, you prolly didn't pay attention. Holy shit.
lol omg it has a quote from "The Last Jedi" in the last pages, sick.
If you can finish this book and don't start wearing tinfoil hats afterwards, you prolly didn't pay attention. Holy shit.
March 30, 2024
After reading the MLK assassination book, it felt only right to read about the RFK assassination.
When discussing the political assassinations of the 1960’s, it’s often said that the RFK one was “an open and shut case.” However, if you were to review the recordings and transcripts of witness interviews, autopsy report, chain of custody for evidence, and the criminal case information for the indicted shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, then you would realize that it is extremely far from “open and shut.” The evidence for conspiracy is astounding. You don’t need to go far afield to find it.
I said in my MLK book review that the evidence of conspiracy and cover up in that case dwarfed that of the JFK assassination and that no logical person could look at all the evidence and conclude that the official story from the police and FBI could possibly be credible. What I didn’t mention is that most of the evidence pointing to that was from eyewitness testimony, and that there was few (yet still quite compelling) bits of physical evidence.
Comparably, the RFK assassination has exceptionally more physical evidence pointing to the fact that the accused shooter did not fire the lethal shots to Kennedy, if he actually fired any bullets at all. Marrying that to an equal, or possibly even larger, trove of eyewitness testimony, and the mountain of evidence pointing to conspiracy actually DWARFS the MLK assassination! This author meticulously lays out every bit of evidence publicly available, cross-referencing it with new testimony of witnesses, providing her own interviews with witnesses, and other key facts in the development of the story. All laid out, it is clear to anyone with an open enough mind to admit that maybe the government might lie to its people sometimes, that there were more than 1 gunmen that night, and more than 1 guns firing at Kennedy.
Here’s a brief summary of how the official narrative does not make sense:
* The Gun Sirhan used held 8 rounds. Eight rounds. Therefore the “official narrative” is that 8 shots were fired.
* Multiple witnesses heard more than 8 shots.
* Multiple witnesses saw more than 1 gunman.
* An audio recording of the entire incident heard more than 8 shots.
* A witness got powder burns on his face in a way that does not make sense with Sirhan being the lone shooter.
* None of the bullet wound trajectories in Kennedy make sense based on the “official narrative”.
* Multiple bullet holes were identified around the scene in the door frame and ceiling. All of the physical evidence was inexplicably destroyed
* Police altered reports from eyewitnesses who said they heard more than 8 shots.
* Witnesses heard, saw, and felt shots coming from other places than where Sirhan was openly firing from.
* Multiple witnesses saw a gunman shooting from atop a table, a location impossible for Sirhan to have been on given what happened during his apprehension.
* Multiple witnesses saw multiple gunmen running from the scene with unconcealed or poorly concealed guns
* “Based on the totality of the evidence, it appears two bullets, not one, entered Kennedy’s brain from the same near-contact entry point. Bang-bang.” It is not physically possible for those shots to have been fired by Sirhan.
A dozen or more witnesses provided very specific testimony of certain individuals walking with and talking with Sirhan. They all describe the same 1-3 people. Several witnesses saw one of these people, a woman in a white dress with black polka dots run out shortly after the shooting saying “we shot him! Senator Kennedy!” These witnesses were psychologically tortured by the FBI into recanting their statements because they didn’t coincide with “the official narrative.” The audio transcripts of their interrogations are deeply disturbing and show that the police have no interest in the truth, merely to maintain the official facade. All it takes is a reading of, or listening to, these transcripts and it won’t take an ounce of logical leaping to believe that the police have something to hide with this case.
Many of the witness interviews were intentionally not transcribed in order to obfuscate the evidence from the public. Every single one of the interviews not transcribed (written on the envelope with the tapes “do not type”) contain a witness giving a statement that lends credence to a conspiracy.
There has been zero physical evidence tying the rounds exhumed from the victims and the scene to the gun taken from the possession of Sirhan. Rounds fired from a gun leave what’s called “rifling”, like a finger print that is slightly different for each gun and always on fired bullets. None match Sirhan’s gun. None matched from the rifling range Sirhan was seen shooting at in the weeks prior.
The chain of evidence for the bullets were so incredibly lousy that there is clearly evidence of tampering from LA police and/or the FBI. The bullets from the Kennedy Autopsy were marked by the surgeon. The bullets currently in evidence do not match what the surgeon extracted.
There is substantial evidence that more bullets were fired than what Sirhan’s gun was capable of holding. Bullets were dug out of door frames and likely thrown into Sirhan’s car. Bullet holes were in the ceiling.
“We’ve been over the kitchen area twice, and we’re going at least one more time. It’s unbelievable how many damn holes there are in that kitchen ceiling.” The door frames and kitchen tiles were removed for evidence. They have since been destroyed. There is indisputable physical evidence, photographs, interviews, official statements, pointing to the fact that more than 8 shots were fired. Defenders of the official narrative come up with all sorts of cockamamie explanations as to “which of these 3+ locations could the 8th bullet have gone? There’s so much compelling evidence for each of them!” It is more fantastical, more supernatural, more irrational to assert that only 8 bullets were shot than to say there were more than 8.
The killing shot(s) to Kennedy were fired at the back of his head from less than an inch away from him. We know this because the gunpowder fired at that close a range gets embedded into the skin, resulting in tattooing. This was seen on Kennedy. Not one single witness claims Sirhan was ever less than 1 foot away from Kennedy. It is not physically possible for the markings found on Kennedy to have been shot by Sirhan. It is simply physically impossible for the “official story” to be true. It’s really that simple.
Sirhan was holding a .22 caliber revolver. .22 rounds, as the name implies, have a diameter of 0.22 inches. Here is an exact quote from the X-Ray autopsy: “The largest metallic fragment is situated in the petrous ridge and at about the arcuate eminence. This measures 12 mm in transverse dimension, 7 mm in vertical dimension, and approximately 12 mm in anteroposterior dimension.” 12mm x 7mm x 12mm = 0.47”x0.28”x0.47”. The bullet inside Kennedy is the wrong caliber to fit Sirhan’s gun.
“High school student Scott Enyart had been standing on a table in the pantry, waiting for Kennedy so he could take his picture, when the shooting began. He took pictures ‘while the shots were being fired’ or ‘maybe a little afterward,’ he wasn’t sure. He jumped up on one of the steam tables so he had a good view of the room. Enyart mentioned his friend Brent Gold was there with him, taking pictures as well. […] Forty years later, Enyart would win a lawsuit against the LAPD over this film…”
“These photos were purportedly stolen from a courier’s car at a gas stop on the way between the California State Archives in Sacramento to the courthouse where Enyart’s case was in session in Los Angeles. Given that nothing else from the car was stolen, we have to ask who wanted to keep Enyart from receiving these photos, and what the photos may have shown that was worth pilfering in an elaborate operation.
It wouldn’t be the first time evidence was sabotaged. Less than two months after the assassination, the LAPD took the extraordinary step of burning some 2,400 photos from the case in Los Angeles County General’s medical-waste incinerator. Why destroy thousands of photos in an incinerator if there was nothing to hide? The LAPD kept hundreds of innocuous crowd scene photos that showed no girl in a polka dot dress and no suspicious activities or individuals. Why were those photos preserved? Perhaps because those photos had nothing in them that warranted their destruction?” HUH. THAT’S WEIRD. DON’T YOU THINK THAT’S WEIRD? WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? SURELY THERE’S NOTHING SUSPICIOUS HERE. DON’T WORRY FOLKS WE GOT THE GUY. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
One of the officers pivotal to the prosecution of Sirhan was LAPD criminalist and member of the LAPD crime lab, Officer DeWayne Wolfer. He spearheaded the investigation for LAPD, his team gathered evidence, he fired test bullets in order to determine if the rifling from Sirhan’s gun matched the bullets being presented to the jury as those recovered from the scene. He was the key to the whole investigation. Surely he’s a straight shooter, right? No. The LAPD has been corrupt for decades. He and the LAPD were SO corrupt that the California Court of Appeals “railed against Wolfer’s actions and testimony in [a separate shooting case with similar ballistic evidence], stating he had ‘negligently presented false demonstrative evidence in support of his ballistics testimony,’ that ‘Wolfer’s acoustical testimony was false,’ and that ‘his testimony on qualifications as an expert on anatomy was also false and borders on the perjurious.’ In other words, the Court of Appeals stopped just short of calling Wolfer a liar.” Key ballistics expert for the RFK assassination is a known liar who manufactured false evidence and gave false testimony. HUH. WEIRD. SURELY JUST THE ONE TIME, RIGHT?
6 separate suspects were wanted for questioning that night. Several were even brought into custody.
Everyone who mentioned a separate suspect mysteriously had their police radio communications go silent shortly afterward and the story changed.
Michael Wayne was arrested for running away from the shooting. His story didn’t hold up compared to witnesses’ testimony. Many people pin him with a gun as he was running from the shooting. He was taken into custody by a security guard because people were shooting “stop that man”. He lied to the FBI about what happened, a federal crime, but no consequences for that for some strange reason. WEIRD.
There is so much more to this book that I have failed to cover. I didn’t even talk about the farce of a trial, Sirhan’s defense attorneys were very clearly not interested in providing a legitimate defense and conspired with the prosecutor and judge.
Large swaths of testimony and reporting is still classified. Because in this fake country, we the peons cannot know what the government doesn’t want us to know. There was no “Warren Commission” for RFK. There’s been no significant effort to release classified documents related to his assassination.
The people who helped cover up the conspiracy got promoted. The people who asked questions or threatened to “official narrative” got harassed, blacklisted, or disappeared. Hell, the person who denied Sirhan’s parole a few years ago became the present sitting Vice President of the US.
No rational person can review the evidence and assert in good faith that the official narrative is credible. I implore anyone who has an iota of skepticism for the federal government to read this book and research the matter yourself.
I recommend this book to everyone.
When discussing the political assassinations of the 1960’s, it’s often said that the RFK one was “an open and shut case.” However, if you were to review the recordings and transcripts of witness interviews, autopsy report, chain of custody for evidence, and the criminal case information for the indicted shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, then you would realize that it is extremely far from “open and shut.” The evidence for conspiracy is astounding. You don’t need to go far afield to find it.
I said in my MLK book review that the evidence of conspiracy and cover up in that case dwarfed that of the JFK assassination and that no logical person could look at all the evidence and conclude that the official story from the police and FBI could possibly be credible. What I didn’t mention is that most of the evidence pointing to that was from eyewitness testimony, and that there was few (yet still quite compelling) bits of physical evidence.
Comparably, the RFK assassination has exceptionally more physical evidence pointing to the fact that the accused shooter did not fire the lethal shots to Kennedy, if he actually fired any bullets at all. Marrying that to an equal, or possibly even larger, trove of eyewitness testimony, and the mountain of evidence pointing to conspiracy actually DWARFS the MLK assassination! This author meticulously lays out every bit of evidence publicly available, cross-referencing it with new testimony of witnesses, providing her own interviews with witnesses, and other key facts in the development of the story. All laid out, it is clear to anyone with an open enough mind to admit that maybe the government might lie to its people sometimes, that there were more than 1 gunmen that night, and more than 1 guns firing at Kennedy.
Here’s a brief summary of how the official narrative does not make sense:
* The Gun Sirhan used held 8 rounds. Eight rounds. Therefore the “official narrative” is that 8 shots were fired.
* Multiple witnesses heard more than 8 shots.
* Multiple witnesses saw more than 1 gunman.
* An audio recording of the entire incident heard more than 8 shots.
* A witness got powder burns on his face in a way that does not make sense with Sirhan being the lone shooter.
* None of the bullet wound trajectories in Kennedy make sense based on the “official narrative”.
* Multiple bullet holes were identified around the scene in the door frame and ceiling. All of the physical evidence was inexplicably destroyed
* Police altered reports from eyewitnesses who said they heard more than 8 shots.
* Witnesses heard, saw, and felt shots coming from other places than where Sirhan was openly firing from.
* Multiple witnesses saw a gunman shooting from atop a table, a location impossible for Sirhan to have been on given what happened during his apprehension.
* Multiple witnesses saw multiple gunmen running from the scene with unconcealed or poorly concealed guns
* “Based on the totality of the evidence, it appears two bullets, not one, entered Kennedy’s brain from the same near-contact entry point. Bang-bang.” It is not physically possible for those shots to have been fired by Sirhan.
A dozen or more witnesses provided very specific testimony of certain individuals walking with and talking with Sirhan. They all describe the same 1-3 people. Several witnesses saw one of these people, a woman in a white dress with black polka dots run out shortly after the shooting saying “we shot him! Senator Kennedy!” These witnesses were psychologically tortured by the FBI into recanting their statements because they didn’t coincide with “the official narrative.” The audio transcripts of their interrogations are deeply disturbing and show that the police have no interest in the truth, merely to maintain the official facade. All it takes is a reading of, or listening to, these transcripts and it won’t take an ounce of logical leaping to believe that the police have something to hide with this case.
Many of the witness interviews were intentionally not transcribed in order to obfuscate the evidence from the public. Every single one of the interviews not transcribed (written on the envelope with the tapes “do not type”) contain a witness giving a statement that lends credence to a conspiracy.
There has been zero physical evidence tying the rounds exhumed from the victims and the scene to the gun taken from the possession of Sirhan. Rounds fired from a gun leave what’s called “rifling”, like a finger print that is slightly different for each gun and always on fired bullets. None match Sirhan’s gun. None matched from the rifling range Sirhan was seen shooting at in the weeks prior.
The chain of evidence for the bullets were so incredibly lousy that there is clearly evidence of tampering from LA police and/or the FBI. The bullets from the Kennedy Autopsy were marked by the surgeon. The bullets currently in evidence do not match what the surgeon extracted.
There is substantial evidence that more bullets were fired than what Sirhan’s gun was capable of holding. Bullets were dug out of door frames and likely thrown into Sirhan’s car. Bullet holes were in the ceiling.
“We’ve been over the kitchen area twice, and we’re going at least one more time. It’s unbelievable how many damn holes there are in that kitchen ceiling.” The door frames and kitchen tiles were removed for evidence. They have since been destroyed. There is indisputable physical evidence, photographs, interviews, official statements, pointing to the fact that more than 8 shots were fired. Defenders of the official narrative come up with all sorts of cockamamie explanations as to “which of these 3+ locations could the 8th bullet have gone? There’s so much compelling evidence for each of them!” It is more fantastical, more supernatural, more irrational to assert that only 8 bullets were shot than to say there were more than 8.
The killing shot(s) to Kennedy were fired at the back of his head from less than an inch away from him. We know this because the gunpowder fired at that close a range gets embedded into the skin, resulting in tattooing. This was seen on Kennedy. Not one single witness claims Sirhan was ever less than 1 foot away from Kennedy. It is not physically possible for the markings found on Kennedy to have been shot by Sirhan. It is simply physically impossible for the “official story” to be true. It’s really that simple.
Sirhan was holding a .22 caliber revolver. .22 rounds, as the name implies, have a diameter of 0.22 inches. Here is an exact quote from the X-Ray autopsy: “The largest metallic fragment is situated in the petrous ridge and at about the arcuate eminence. This measures 12 mm in transverse dimension, 7 mm in vertical dimension, and approximately 12 mm in anteroposterior dimension.” 12mm x 7mm x 12mm = 0.47”x0.28”x0.47”. The bullet inside Kennedy is the wrong caliber to fit Sirhan’s gun.
“High school student Scott Enyart had been standing on a table in the pantry, waiting for Kennedy so he could take his picture, when the shooting began. He took pictures ‘while the shots were being fired’ or ‘maybe a little afterward,’ he wasn’t sure. He jumped up on one of the steam tables so he had a good view of the room. Enyart mentioned his friend Brent Gold was there with him, taking pictures as well. […] Forty years later, Enyart would win a lawsuit against the LAPD over this film…”
“These photos were purportedly stolen from a courier’s car at a gas stop on the way between the California State Archives in Sacramento to the courthouse where Enyart’s case was in session in Los Angeles. Given that nothing else from the car was stolen, we have to ask who wanted to keep Enyart from receiving these photos, and what the photos may have shown that was worth pilfering in an elaborate operation.
It wouldn’t be the first time evidence was sabotaged. Less than two months after the assassination, the LAPD took the extraordinary step of burning some 2,400 photos from the case in Los Angeles County General’s medical-waste incinerator. Why destroy thousands of photos in an incinerator if there was nothing to hide? The LAPD kept hundreds of innocuous crowd scene photos that showed no girl in a polka dot dress and no suspicious activities or individuals. Why were those photos preserved? Perhaps because those photos had nothing in them that warranted their destruction?” HUH. THAT’S WEIRD. DON’T YOU THINK THAT’S WEIRD? WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? SURELY THERE’S NOTHING SUSPICIOUS HERE. DON’T WORRY FOLKS WE GOT THE GUY. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
One of the officers pivotal to the prosecution of Sirhan was LAPD criminalist and member of the LAPD crime lab, Officer DeWayne Wolfer. He spearheaded the investigation for LAPD, his team gathered evidence, he fired test bullets in order to determine if the rifling from Sirhan’s gun matched the bullets being presented to the jury as those recovered from the scene. He was the key to the whole investigation. Surely he’s a straight shooter, right? No. The LAPD has been corrupt for decades. He and the LAPD were SO corrupt that the California Court of Appeals “railed against Wolfer’s actions and testimony in [a separate shooting case with similar ballistic evidence], stating he had ‘negligently presented false demonstrative evidence in support of his ballistics testimony,’ that ‘Wolfer’s acoustical testimony was false,’ and that ‘his testimony on qualifications as an expert on anatomy was also false and borders on the perjurious.’ In other words, the Court of Appeals stopped just short of calling Wolfer a liar.” Key ballistics expert for the RFK assassination is a known liar who manufactured false evidence and gave false testimony. HUH. WEIRD. SURELY JUST THE ONE TIME, RIGHT?
6 separate suspects were wanted for questioning that night. Several were even brought into custody.
Everyone who mentioned a separate suspect mysteriously had their police radio communications go silent shortly afterward and the story changed.
Michael Wayne was arrested for running away from the shooting. His story didn’t hold up compared to witnesses’ testimony. Many people pin him with a gun as he was running from the shooting. He was taken into custody by a security guard because people were shooting “stop that man”. He lied to the FBI about what happened, a federal crime, but no consequences for that for some strange reason. WEIRD.
There is so much more to this book that I have failed to cover. I didn’t even talk about the farce of a trial, Sirhan’s defense attorneys were very clearly not interested in providing a legitimate defense and conspired with the prosecutor and judge.
Large swaths of testimony and reporting is still classified. Because in this fake country, we the peons cannot know what the government doesn’t want us to know. There was no “Warren Commission” for RFK. There’s been no significant effort to release classified documents related to his assassination.
The people who helped cover up the conspiracy got promoted. The people who asked questions or threatened to “official narrative” got harassed, blacklisted, or disappeared. Hell, the person who denied Sirhan’s parole a few years ago became the present sitting Vice President of the US.
No rational person can review the evidence and assert in good faith that the official narrative is credible. I implore anyone who has an iota of skepticism for the federal government to read this book and research the matter yourself.
I recommend this book to everyone.
August 29, 2025
The magnum opus on the RFK assassination and investigation into its tried and convicted Sirhan Sirhan captured at the scene.
More bullets were fired than the 8 Sirhan's gun held according to witnesses and from the physical evidence like the ceiling panels and wooden architraves that were full of holes and some other bullets found have since been destroyed.
Powder burns on the back of RFKs neck indicate the weapon was discharged inches away from him and from behind yet everyone saw Sirhan no closer than a few feet away when he fired, indicating other shooters.
Selective witness statements were fraudulently coerced to reflect Sirhan may have been closer.
Many witnesses saw a girl in a polka dot dress near Sirhan and later leaving with another man with one witness making a statement that claimed she said "we shot him" as she ran out, but this evidence was removed by LAPD officer Hernandez who badgered the key witness Sandra Serrano till she changed her statement to say she wasn't sure what she saw or heard.
Then there's Sirhan Sirhan the convicted shooter who as we see in the book was likely in a hypnotic state throughout the assassination and has no recollection of what happened and who was amazingly calm after his arrest and during his interviews with police.
With the hypnosis advances the CIA had made by 1968 it's no stretch to imagine Sirhan was a Manchurian candidate fall guy who to this day is still alive and in prison.
Pease then goes into detail about hypnosis and its use by the CIA in finding and using fall guys and patsies as was revealed by the Church Commission in the 70s.
Then Pease writes of the motives and as to why the CIA was created after WW2 from the ashes of the OSS as a neocon war promoter, acting independently of the White house with the help of the infamous Dulles brothers who controlled American foreign policy and who would want to see the back of both Kennedy brothers and others like MLK who would damage their attempts to escalate conflict in Vietnam ,the cold war and other places.
If you read this book to the end you cannot accept the story the government and media would want us to believe that Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK and acted alone.
More bullets were fired than the 8 Sirhan's gun held according to witnesses and from the physical evidence like the ceiling panels and wooden architraves that were full of holes and some other bullets found have since been destroyed.
Powder burns on the back of RFKs neck indicate the weapon was discharged inches away from him and from behind yet everyone saw Sirhan no closer than a few feet away when he fired, indicating other shooters.
Selective witness statements were fraudulently coerced to reflect Sirhan may have been closer.
Many witnesses saw a girl in a polka dot dress near Sirhan and later leaving with another man with one witness making a statement that claimed she said "we shot him" as she ran out, but this evidence was removed by LAPD officer Hernandez who badgered the key witness Sandra Serrano till she changed her statement to say she wasn't sure what she saw or heard.
Then there's Sirhan Sirhan the convicted shooter who as we see in the book was likely in a hypnotic state throughout the assassination and has no recollection of what happened and who was amazingly calm after his arrest and during his interviews with police.
With the hypnosis advances the CIA had made by 1968 it's no stretch to imagine Sirhan was a Manchurian candidate fall guy who to this day is still alive and in prison.
Pease then goes into detail about hypnosis and its use by the CIA in finding and using fall guys and patsies as was revealed by the Church Commission in the 70s.
Then Pease writes of the motives and as to why the CIA was created after WW2 from the ashes of the OSS as a neocon war promoter, acting independently of the White house with the help of the infamous Dulles brothers who controlled American foreign policy and who would want to see the back of both Kennedy brothers and others like MLK who would damage their attempts to escalate conflict in Vietnam ,the cold war and other places.
If you read this book to the end you cannot accept the story the government and media would want us to believe that Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK and acted alone.
January 2, 2024
Most goated fkn book of all time
July 20, 2024
La patrie ou la mort, nous vaincrons!
May 3, 2020
This book relies too heavily on (often conflicting) witness testimony and conjecture. I am not a conspiracy theorist but I do believe some conspiracies are true or somewhat true . This book is not one of them. There is a noticeable lack of compelling evidence and so I cannot jump on the conspiracy train.
May 21, 2019
I just (necessarily) read this twice. A review may be forthcoming on my weblog.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 53 reviews