The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).
On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in the California primary for the Democratic nomination for president.
Everybody knew that Sirhan was the assassin. But was there a wider conspiracy? Did the FBI truly solve the crime? After working his way deep inside the investigation—and spending more than two hundred hours in direct conversation with Sirhan—Robert Blair Kaiser wrote the quintessential book on Robert Kennedy’s murder.
Then, forty years later, Kaiser returned to the evidence, revising his original text as he probed even further into this mystifying tragedy. Widely recognized as an important contribution to the literature of political assassinations and as a primary document on the tragedy of Kennedy’s death, “R.F.K. Must Die!” is more than ever a stunning look into the mind of a killer and the substance of an assassination.
Clare Booth Luce discovered Kaiser when he was a young reporter for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix. Soon he was covering the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council in Rome, winning prizes and plaudits for his inside reporting on the progress of Pope John's push to bring the Church up to date. He's done five books on the post-conciliar Church and a dozen others on various other obsessions. He wrote on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in "R.F.K. Must Die!" as well as two novels, Cardinal Mahony and Razzle Dazzle.