The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by William Turner;Jonn Christian

Author:William Turner;Jonn Christian [Christian, William Turner;Jonn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-09-12T07:47:00+00:00

Kranz, not to be deterred by Bugliosi's last argument, countered to Judge Wenke that any further inquiry and testing would stretch costs beyond the $100,000 already expended. It was on this note of penury, a drop in the bucket compared with the cost of cracking the Watergate cover-up, that the proceedings ground to a halt with Judge Wenke refusing to broaden their scope. Wenke stated that he did not have "jurisdiction" to continue the hearing.

Bugliosi told Wenke that he had never been able to understand how the court had any jurisdiction to conduct this hearing in the first place. Since he had not been the Sirhan trial judge, and because Sirhan's conviction had long since been affirmed on appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States, any further inquiry or investigation would have to be by law enforcement, not a court such as his. However, Bugliosi reasoned, under the prevailing circumstances, and as the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, Wenke already had assumed jurisdiction of the matter. Why terminate it at this crucial point when important evidence had been "uncovered," Bugliosi argued.

But Wenke reiterated that he simply had no power to continue the inquiry. And with that he closed the curtain on what might have been the first ray of light and hope in the case for legitimate judicial review.

On April 5, 1977, Kranz completed his "report" on the RFK case. Predictably, he found no evidence of a second gun.

Although for seven and a half years there had been considerable speculation as to the existence of extra bullets, prior to the signed statements obtained by Bugliosi there had been no substantive available evidence to support these suspicions. In the remarkable period of a few short days, the indefatigable and resourceful lawyer had come up with evidence which pointed to the existence of more than eight bullets and, therefore, a multiple-gun shooting.

Bugliosi, who is hardly a "conspiracy buff" and who is very conservative when it comes to the opinions he reaches in such serious matters, later told us: "I have no way of knowing for sure whether or not more than one gun was fired at the assassination scene. And I have formed no opinion at this point. What I will say is this: the signed statements given me perhaps can be explained away; but in the absence of a logical explanation, these statements, by simple arithmetic, add up to too many bullets and therefore, the probability of a second gun."•

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