They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Sirhan Sirhan was the accused assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy. Kennedy had just finished addressing in the Ambassador Hotel his supporters after his victory in the California presidential primary. As he entered the pantry of the hotel kitchen on his way out, Sirhan opened fire from in front of the senator.

He was wrestled to the ground but kept firing until the gun was empty. Stray shots hit one or two bystanders, not fatally and others were sprayed around the room. An autopsy showed that the fatal shot came entered the back of Kennedy's head near the right ear.

It is reported that hypnotist William Bryan was handling Sirhan who claimed to have no memory of shooting anyone he says he liked Kennedy. Recently released from prison, he says he still has no memory.

The autopsy revealed the fatal shots came from a gun pressed against Kennedy's head behind the right ear. That was where security guard Thane Eugene Cesar was walking and shortly after this assassination he left the country.

On June 4, 1968, just after he had declared victory in the California presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Captured a few feet away, gun in hand, was a young Palestinian-American named Sirhan Sirhan. The case against Sirhan was declared “open and shut” and the court proceedings against him were billed as “the trial of the century”; American justice at its fairest and most sure. But was it?

By careful examination of the police files, hidden for twenty years, William Klaber and Philip Melanson’s Shadow Play explores the chilling significance of altered evidence, ignored witnesses, and coerced testimony. It challenges the official assumptions and conclusions about this most troubling, and perhaps still unsolved, political murder.