In June 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot Kennedy dead in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments after he had clinched victory in the California Democratic primary for that year's presidential election.
Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, cried "I did it for my country" when arrested. He kept diaries detailing his hatred of Kennedy for promising military support for Israel, a year after the region's Six-Day War.
Yet Sirhan's lawyer claims he was programmed to shoot the politician while under hypnosis.'
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