Episode 60: MKUltra — The CIA's Secret Mind Control Experiments

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Episode 60: Was There a Second Shooter at the RFK Assassination?

June 5th, 1968. Los Angeles. Robert F. Kennedy has just won the California Democratic primary and is giving his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel. Minutes later, in the hotel's kitchen corridor, he is shot. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is immediately tackled, still holding his gun. Kennedy dies the following day. Sirhan is convicted and sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment. He has been denied parole multiple times and remains incarcerated today.

There is one problem with this case that no official investigation has ever adequately resolved. The autopsy concluded that the fatal shot entered the back of Kennedy's head at close range. Sirhan was in front of Kennedy — and multiple witnesses testified he never got within a few feet of him. Sirhan's gun held eight bullets. The forensic evidence pointed to more than eight bullet holes in the crime scene. And Sirhan himself has consistently maintained, across decades of imprisonment, that he has no memory of the shooting.

In this episode of The Conspiracy Theory Analyst, we examine the most compelling and most officially uncomfortable conspiracy theory in American political history after Dallas — the claim that Sirhan Sirhan did not fire the shot that killed Robert Kennedy, and that a second gunman standing directly behind Kennedy delivered the fatal bullet while Sirhan served as a distraction.

The case for a second shooter rests on forensic evidence that was suppressed for decades. The original coroner, Dr Thomas Noguchi, established in his autopsy that the fatal bullet entered Kennedy's head from behind at a distance of approximately one inch — so close that there was powder tattooing on the skin. Witnesses who were standing near Kennedy consistently described Sirhan as being in front of him, at arm's length or more, never behind him and never at close range. The geometry of the shooting as described by eyewitnesses does not match the wound described in the autopsy. These are not speculative claims. They are documented contradictions in the official record.

The additional bullet holes — in doorframes and ceiling tiles — were identified by investigators at the scene, photographed, and then destroyed when the crime scene was demolished, making independent verification impossible. An audio recording made during the shooting appears to capture thirteen distinct shots — five more than Sirhan's gun could hold.

Thane Eugene Cesar, a security guard standing directly behind Kennedy at the moment of the fatal shot, was never seriously investigated. He owned the same calibre weapon as the fatal bullet's calibre, different from Sirhan's. He sold his gun immediately after the shooting. He told investigators different stories about whether he drew his weapon. He was never charged.

The Sirhan case also includes one of the most extraordinary claims in any political assassination: that Sirhan was hypnotically programmed to shoot and to have no conscious memory of doing so — a concept researchers have linked to MK Ultra-style techniques. This claim is speculative. The forensic contradictions are not.

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