Did the CIA Kill RFK?

I have never been a big conspiracy theory fan. That's what many years of being an investigative editor and reporter will do to you. But I have long believed that there was a big piece missing in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination puzzle.

I have never been comfortable with the official line that Sirhan Sirhan, the 34-year-old Palestinian gunman, killed RFK because of his support for Israel during the Six-Day War, although there is no record that he did so.

Now comes the BBC with a frightening but more plausible explanation in a new documentary:

The CIA was behind the assassination.

Christ Floyd fulminates on the new theory at Empire Burlesque, while Shane O'Sullivan, who directed the documentary, goes in depth in a Guardian commentary.