RFK, Sirhan Sirhan and the girl in the polka-dot dress
A Making Sense of History Zine
I don't know if any of you are familiar with the details of the RFK assassination, which took place in 1968. If not, let me tell you, the story is bizarre and probably the craziest shit I have ever read.
On June 5, 1968, shortly after winning the California Democratic primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant who openly confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison.
Several anomalies and inconsistencies have fuelled conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination. One prominent hypothesis suggests that Sirhan may have been an unwitting subject of CIA mind control programs like MKUltra and Project Artichoke, which subjected innocent people to illegal experiments using hypnosis and brainwashing techniques. A goal of Project Artichoke, for example, was to determine if and how to compel ordinary people to perpetuate violent acts against politicians with hypnosis, psychological torture, persuasion and the administration of psycho-active drugs.
Witnesses, including those closest to RFK at the time of the shooting, reported seeing a young woman wearing a polka-dot dress accompanying Sirhan in the pantry area moments before he opened fire. This mysterious woman, described as having dark hair and a turned-up nose, was never officially identified or located by investigators.
Proponents of the mind control theory speculate that Sirhan may have been hypnotically programmed as a Manchurian Candidate-style assassin, potentially triggered by the presence of the woman in the polka-dot dress functioning as a visual hypnotic trigger. Sirhan's bizarre behaviour during and after the shooting, which included displaying inhuman strength and seeming amnesia, lends credibility to the hypothesis of an altered mental state induced through brainwashing techniques.
The more you know.
