The most prominent 'Manchurian Candidate'
Robert F. Kennedy's assassin 'was a real-life Manchurian Candidate'
Robert F. Kennedy's assassin was programmed to shoot the politician in a real life version of the film The Manchurian Candidate, according to his lawyer ahead of a parole hearing on Wednesday.
By Jon Swaine
In June 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot Kennedy dead in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments after he had clinched victory in the California Democratic primary for that year's presidential election.
Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, cried "I did it for my country" when arrested. He kept diaries detailing his hatred of Kennedy for promising military support for Israel, a year after the region's Six-Day War.
Yet Sirhan's lawyer claims he was programmed to shoot the politician while under hypnosis.
Bill Pepper, the New York attorney who will today lead Sirhan's 14th attempt to be given parole, improbably alleges his client was "hypno-programmed".
"Sirhan was put through a process involving hypnosis and chemicals," claimed Mr Pepper, who is also a qualified barrister in England and Wales.
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