Hi, citizens. I am by no means a verteran of RFK "research". I am a middle aged social studies teacher in the middle of my second book.

That book is Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy. Unlike the ALSO UNBELIEVEABLY GOOD BOOK BY TURNER AND CHRISTIAN that was reissued last year (anyone who has not read this book has missed not-only a non-fiction very well documented Crying of Lot 49, but also a book replete with hundreds of footnotes connected to 1960s rightwing groups and also related to the the JFK assasssination.)

Lots of stuff on California Birchers for Frawley fans!

Oh, wrong book-edict.

Melanson and Klaber's book is different but also outstanding. It largely confines itself to the trial and the spiral staircase of jusrisprudence within the LAPD. A lot of the background research of Turner and Christian's, that focussed on the right wing mix that had surrounded Sirhan is not covered in the Melanson book. Instead it is a very scrupulous deconstruction of the offical proceedings. It is no less incredible, no less a remaining-jaw-dropper, in that in exposes gaping caverns in the offical pillars of justice as practiced by the Los Angeles DA and the LAPD.

Readers of books about the JFK assassination are familiar with countless numbers of instances of witnesses saying one thing in thier initial interviews by officials and then being pressured into saying something else. They are also aware of how many times witnesses testify one way and then, years later, end up dumbfounded as to how their testimony was twisted into supporting a diametrically opposed conclusion.

Well this book actually SHOWS these processes at work better than any I have read. It is the best education on how witnesses testimony can be manipulated. The authors manage to reconstruct an incredible amount of actual dialoge from the synchronized arm-twisting that went on inside LAPD interrogation rooms.

This police witness-tampering is shown so clearly, it's incredible there isn't more awareness about the RFK case.

Thanks for the review and suggestion. I've read the one by Turner and Christian and several others. The RFK Assassination is sadly under
tudied, as is that of MLK. As we now have some quite concrete proofs of many ove
laps in who was behind and involved in the JFK and RFK, and several overlaps in 
hose behind and participants in that of MLK - and all shared certain modus operandi - it is strange. There are enough good books on both, however, to see the outline
 clearly of both and that the official versions were as much a fiction [and penn
d by the same fiction institutions] as that of Dallas. What went on in the LAPD 
as just a longer / more involved version of the infiltration and non-investigation carried out by Police and Sherrif in Dallas [of course the whole b
ll of wax was taken away from them by LBJ] but they still lied, covered-up and kept their silences, as needed for the 'official fiction'.
In all three the Ultra-Right was involved, clearly, along with military, police, intelligence and the 'Right-Rich'.
The illegal activities of the LAPD are legendary, if unknown by most. Darral Gates was rewarded for his participation...mafia style, and as were those involved in Dallas. It is a very sad history this Nation has, if mostly unknown. The details are not in the standard high school nor university American History texts...but is available, for those who seek the truth.