Kennedy killer wants hotel to stay (Wants reenactment of assassination for acoustical analysis)

News.com (Australia) ^ | December 3, 2004 | Arthur Spiegelman

[Stoat]

Kennedy killer wants hotel to stay

By Arthur Spiegelman in Los Angeles
December 3, 2004

THE lawyer for Robert Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, has gone to court to stop the demolition of the hotel where the late senator was shot dead, saying that there is evidence in its walls that can prove his client innocent.

Attorney Lawrence Teeter claims the 60-year-old Sirhan was set up as a dupe in the 1968 assassination, despite shooting at Kennedy in front of witnesses.

Sirhan is serving a life sentence for the crime.

Mr Teeter filed suit this week in Los Angeles Superior Court to stop the city's school board from demolishing the Ambassador Hotel to build a school on the site.

The Los Angeles Unified School Board's general counsel, Kevin Reed, said he was baffled by the suit as Sirhan admitted his guilt.

 

 

The suit said that bullet holes in the walls and ceiling where Kennedy was killed on June 5, 1968, prove that more than one gun was used to shoot the New York senator.

Teeter wants the hotel to remain standing so that an acoustical re-enactment of the crime can take place. He argues that modern technology can prove how many shots were fired.

"Mr Teeter is looking for us to allow him to go into the hotel and re-enact the shooting so that new acoustical tests can be made to determine if more than one gun was fired. But this would be 35 years after the event and years after his client admitted his guilt in court," Reed said.

"This is just silly."

Mr Teeter admits that his client was wrestled to the ground by witnesses at the scene of the killing after he started firing a gun at the senator. But he claims that autopsies show that the senator was shot at from behind while his client was in front of the senator in a hotel pantry.

Mr Teeter said his client was hypnotised and programmed to go to the scene, while others carried out the killing. Sirhan has said he has no memory of the killing.

At the time of his arrest, the Palestinian immigrant shouted to onlookers: "I did it for my people."

Robert Kennedy's family has called for the hotel to be ripped down and to have a school built in its place, saying that would be a fitting memorial to his memory.

Joining Mr Teeter in the suit are the Assassination Archives and Research Centre and the newly formed Committee to Preserve Assassination Sites.

[West Coast Conservative]

This terrorist piece of crap should have been executed. He shot RFK because he supported Israel in the Six-Day War. Those Palestinians are all the same.

[APFel]

Someone pass the Cocoa Puffs. This man is coo coo.

APf

[river rat]

Who are YOU going to believe?

This sand cockroach Arab, or your lying eyes?

Semper Fi

[Mad Mammoth]

Sirhan just needs more legal firepower from an attorney with more of an open mind, hello? John Edwards? Could you perhaps plan on channeling an imprisoned assassin sometime in the near future? Thank you very much.

[gridlock]

You would be amazed at how many people don't know that Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian terorist...

[Jonx6]

"You would be amazed at how many people don't know that Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian terorist..."

That's news to me at 38yo and fairly well read. I guess the media didn't think it was important enough to stress. Who, what, where, when and WHY has been replaced with leftist tripe.

[chainsaw]

Just wondering - is Sirhan Sirhan another Muslim?

[1234]

i once read a book or a lengthy convincing article that there are many valid points re. sirhan being railroaded and that there was a second lethal shooter.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Committee to Preserve Assassination Sites.

A charming little group.