The Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy

Name: The Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Tim Tate
ISBN: 9781787713086

Author: Tim Tate, Brad Johnson

Narrator: Lewis Hancock

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Published: 01/01/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was found holding the smoking gun, and convicted of murder. That is the official history - but Tim Tate and Brad Johnson have uncovered a different story. After 25 years spent scrutinising over 100,000 official documents and previously unknown recordings, and conducting new interviews with key figures, they show that Sirhan could not have fired the fatal bullets - and reveal evidence of a murderous conspiracy involving organised crime and the CIA...

About Tim Tate

Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist, and bestselling author. His films have been honored by Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, the International Documentary Association, the Association for International Broadcasting, the (US) National Academy of Cable Broadcasting, and the New York Festivals. Tim has written eleven non-fiction books, and is the coauthor of the bestselling Slave Girl, which has spent more than three years in Amazon's Top 100.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on June 04, 2018

3.5 1968. The spring of my sophomore year of high school found me falling into a depression that lasted several months. Personal and family problems were behind most of it, with national events weighing down with extra pressure as we saw the deaths of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Ke......more

Goodreads review by Margaret Mary on August 27, 2018

If you enjoy reading historical non-fiction events that are embroiled in a conspiracy, then this would be a book I would recommend reading. With the wealth of information and the plethora of opinions as to what occurred on that fateful night June 4th, 1968 in the Ambassador hotel, I initially had re......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on June 25, 2018

Being British and of an age where I would've only been a twinkle in my father's eye when this awful event occurred in June 1968 explains why I have no knowledge of the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's brother. He was killed five years after his brother was assassinated at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Tex......more