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9 Ray in New Orleans: Ibid., p. 541.
10 Sartor killed: Ibid., p. 514.
11 Jowers and Liberto: “The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis,” op. cit.
12 Jowers and rifle: Ibid., portions also recounted in “A King-Sized Conspiracy,” Russell.
13 Ibid., “. . . exposed in Memphis.” Testimony of William Hamblin. Ray’s attorney, William Pepper, believed Hamblin, rather than Jowers’s account.
14 Liberto witnesses: Ibid., citing testimony of Lavada Addison and her son Nathan Whitlock.
15 Ibid.
16 McCollough: An Act of State, by William F. Pepper Verso, 2008 edition, pp. 73-74.
17 Army intelligence: William F. Pepper talk on his book, An Act of State, in San Francisco, Feb. 4, 2003. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.html.
18 Pepper quote: Ibid.
19 Gelber lead: FBI Headquarters file, Murkin King Section 10; Birmingham to director with copies to Memphis, L.A., Mobile/response to Miami report of April 6, 1964.
20 Hoover edict: FBI Headquarters File, Murkin King Section 10, director to SAC’s in Birmingham, Memphis, and Los Angeles. Order to hold ID checks and leads.
21 Ray phone call: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 604.
22 Judge Gelber later stated that Dade County state attorney files on the Milteer case—literally thousands of pages—had somehow disappeared from a warehouse in Miami.
23 Ray brother and Stoner: Ibid., p. 697.
24 William Bradford Huie, He Slew the Dreamer, New York: Delacorte Press, 1970, pp. 91-97. (The original title for Huie’s book was They Slew the Dreamer—until he decided to go with the Ray-as-lone-assassin scenario).
25 Ray and hypnosis: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 559.
26 Von Koss and intelligence work: Letter from Bernard Fensterwald Jr. to Harry Arons, Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis, April 29, 1970, in Committee to Investigate Assassination archives, Washington, D.C.
27 Ray brother: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 561.
28 Ray’s mental condition: Truth At Last, by John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten, Lyons Press, Guilford, Ct., 2008, pp. 23 and 27.
29 General’s response: Ibid., p. 26.
30 Kimble and McGill: Ibid., pp. 84-85.
31 Ray phrases: Ibid., p. 104.
Chapter Six
1 Number of shots: “40 Years after RFK’s Death, Questions Linger,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 2008; Van Praag interview on blip.tv (viewable on Internet).
2 Bullet locations: Chronicle, ibid. Van Praag co-wrote a book about the assassination called An Open and Shut Case.
3 Noguchi finding: Ibid.
4 District Attorney’s office on ballistics: Legacy of Secrecy, Waldron and Hartmann, p. 684.
5 Cesar statements to police: Article by Lisa Pease in Probe, March-April 1998, Vol. 5, No. 3.
6 Security guard: Ibid.
7 H&R 922: Van Praag interview on blip.tv.
8 Another gunman: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 640.
9 Polka dot dress lady: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 634.
10 Sharaga report: The Assassination of Robert Kennedy, by William W. Turner and Jonn G. Christian, Random House: New York, 1978, p. 76.
11 Sirhan on girl: Ibid., p. 193, quoting interview with Turner.
12 Pease article.
13 LAPD and CIA: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 678, quoting William Turner.
14 Pena and Hernandez: Article by Pease.
15 Missing evidence: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 685.
16 Philip Melanson quoted on missing evidence: Ibid.
17 Sirhan files: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 650.
18 Sirhan and gun: Ibid., pp. 652-653.
19 Sirhan sightings: Legacy of Secrecy, p. 659.
20 Estabrooks article: “To ‘Sleep’; Perchance to Kill?”, Providence Evening Bulletin, May 13, 1968 (Colgate University Archives).
21 CIA assassin program: The Man Who Knew Too Much, by Dick Russell, Carroll & Graf, N.Y., 1972, p. 380.
22 CIA and hypnosis: The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” by John Marks, W.W. Norton, N.Y., 1991, p. 202.
23 Spiegel on Sirhan/hypnosis: “Hypnosis: Flight from Reason or Floating Toward Bethlehem?”, by Dick Russell, Harper’s Weekly, June 28, 1976.
24 Teletype: Who Killed Bobby?, by Shane O’Sullivan, Union Square Press, N.Y./ London, 2008, p. 381.
25 Diamond on Sirhan: Ibid.,