# Who Shot Bobby Kennedy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shot-bobby-kennedy/440945 "2008-03-11T10:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shot-bobby-kennedy/440945/1 "2008-03-11T10:26:46Z")
Not sure if this should go in GD or not, but there’s [some evidence that there was more than one gunman.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/22/kennedy.assassination) > [@](#): > > The official record states that senator Robert F Kennedy, like his brother before him, was killed by a crazed lone gunman. But the assassination of a man who seemed to embody so much hope for a bitterly divided country embroiled in an unpopular war still troubles this nation. > > Little about the official explanation of the events at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5 1968 makes sense. Now a new forensic analysis of the only audio recording of the fatal shots has given new weight to a controversial theory that there were in fact two shooters, and that the man convicted of Kennedy’s killing — Sirhan Sirhan - did not fire the fatal shots. Acoustic evidence is one of the things which points to Oswald as being the killer in the case of JFK. _ **If** _ the rest of the information in the article is correct, then it seems likely that someone else was shooting at the same time. Were they trying to shoot Sirhan? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shot-bobby-kennedy/440945/2 "2008-03-11T11:21:56Z")
[http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:R9EsMJhbwbUJ:hnn.us/articles/44466.html+"Philip+Van+Praag+"+kennedy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us](http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:R9EsMJhbwbUJ:hnn.us/articles/44466.html+%22Philip+Van+Praag+%22+kennedy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us) Another take on whether this is really scientific evidence. It’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shot-bobby-kennedy/440945/3 "2008-03-11T21:20:14Z")
It’s pretty certain that Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy, since it happened in a crowded kitchen, where Sirhan was taken down with the gun still in his hand, in front of a bunch of witnesses. Could there have been a second shooter? Where did the shots go? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-shot-bobby-kennedy/440945/4 "2008-03-11T21:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Could there have been a second shooter? Where did the shots go? [/QUOTE] Off the top of my head: I think one of the “magic bullet” theories about the RFK assassination was the presence of extra bullet holes (somewhere), and the angle at which they would have had to come (not from SS’s gun). I saw a program some years ago that went into that, and pretty much debunked the extra bullet hole idea. I think that the upshot was that early in the investigation they had been _thought_ to have been bullet holes, but further research showed it was not the case. I don’t think there’s anything credible other than Sirhan Sirhan acting alone alone.