The Real Manchurian Candidate

Was Sirhan Sirhan hypnotically programmed? This documentary just may convince you.

There has been lots of recent talk online and in the media about the Kennedy assassinations. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been directing people to JFK and the Unspeakable, and telling the stories on podcast after pocast. I think this is great. If nothing else, his candidacy for president is getting some truth out there about where the horror started. Truth that should be taught in schools and universities. I'm continuously shocked by how illiterate interviewers are on this topic. They don’t seem to do even the slightest bit of reading in preparation.

When the Netflix docuseries Bobby Kennedy for President came out, I watched it twice. I'd fallen in love with the man based on my reading of Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, by David Talbot. It's sheer poetry.

The docuseries is great. It puts the poetry of Brothers into technicolor, and is both inspiring and heartbreaking to watch.

But being the propaganda outlet that it is, Netflix left out the fact that we know how the patsy Sirhan Sirhan was set up to be in the place he was on the night of the 1968 California Democratic Party Primary, in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with a gun pointed at the man who would have been the37th President of the United States.

There is another documentary that fills this void, featuring interviews with experts who spent hours with Sirhan, and all they were able to learn from him about the months leading up to that night.

From this WhoWhatWhy article by Shane O'Sullivan:

Over the last 11 years, Sirhan’s attorney Laurie Dusek and Dr. Daniel Brown, a leading expert on hypnosis and coercive persuasion at Harvard Medical School, have spent over 150 hours with Sirhan, working pro bono and at great personal cost to recover his memory of the shooting. These sessions have produced some extraordinary new evidence of the “range mode” programming allegedly used to set up Sirhan as a distraction in the pantry, while the second gunman fired the fatal shot from an inch behind Kennedy’s right ear. During these sessions, Brown identified the cues that trigger “range mode” and on at least three occasions, Sirhan assumed a firing stance, entering “range mode” and firing at circle targets, as Brown believes he did on the night of the assassination.

In my previous articles for WhoWhatWhy about Sirhan’s 2016 parole hearing, I detailed Dr. Brown’s work with Sirhan, as outlined in his 2011 and 2016 declarations. His “range mode” discovery also inspired a similar experiment by British mentalist Derren Brown on British television.

The Netflix series Bobby Kennedy for President was originally pitched around Sirhan’s legal case, and Dan Brown gave an exclusive six-hour interview to the filmmakers. When I heard that his groundbreaking work had been completely cut from the series, with no explanation from the filmmakers, I felt I had to step in and bring the story of his work with Sirhan to the wider public. Dusek was present at all the sessions with Brown and Sirhan, so, in the video below, you can watch Brown and Dusek discuss their discoveries in detail for the first time.

Two of Robert Kennedy’s children now support a new investigation into their father’s murder. Sirhan has spent 50 years in prison for a crime he can’t remember committing. It’s time for the authorities to act before truth and justice in this case are lost to history.