Michael Giltz: RFK Must Die -- A Chat With Filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/emrfk-must-dieem----a-cha_b_106094.html [4/5/2009 2:16:43 PM] APRIL 5, 2009 HOME POLITICS MEDIA BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT LIVING STYLE GREEN WORLD CHICAGO COMEDY 23/6 VIDEO BLOGGER INDEX ARCHIVE Make HuffPost Your HomePage Get Email Alerts Twitter: Follow Us BIG NEWS : Angelina Jolie | Madonna | Chris Brown & Rihanna | Paul McCartney | More...</p><p> LOG IN | SIGN UP Michael Giltz BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index RFK Must Die -- A Chat With Filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan Posted June 9, 2008 | 02:01 PM (EST) Read More: Assassination, Barack o'Bama , Bobby Kennedy , Documentary , Hilary Clinton , Movies, Robert F.</p><p> Kennedy , Shane o'Sullivan , Tv, Entertainment News Filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan isn't sure whom he should thank more for pumping up the publicityon his new documentary film RFK Must Die , which is currently showing at the Pioneer Theaterin New York and debuts tonight on TV's WNYC25 as well as airings on the DocumentaryChannel.</p><p> Presidential candidate Hilary Clinton deserves a shout-out for awkwardly raising the spectre ofBobby Kennedy's assassination in relation to the presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. "Oh absolutely," says O'Sullivan from London,where he is based with his wife, who works in Japanese television.</p><p> But Emilio Estevez deserveseven more credit. "Maybe the film Bobby started to bring Bobby Kennedy back into the public eye," says O'Sullivan about that acclaimed 2006 drama Estevez wrote and directed about Kennedy's last day.</p><p> O'Sullivan was working on a fictional film about that same subject before Estevez's project appeared.</p><p> And coincidentally, the Japanese TV network O'Sullivan's wife contributes to does anannual special on all the JFK conspiracy theories.</p><p> So maybe it's not so surprising that O'Sullivanslowly, almost reluctantly found himself questioning the official story that Bobby Kennedy waskilled solely by an insane Sirhan Sirhan. "We truly don't know who killed Bobby Kennedy, which is really greatly disturbing," says the 38- year-old filmmaker who insists he is no fan of conspiracy theories.</p><p> But the questions continued to pop up for him, many of them raised by the people who were there at the Ambassador Hotel in LosAngeles on June 4, 1968. "The best example of that is Paul Schrade, a UAW leader," says O'Sullivan, who also has a book Be the First to Submit This Story to Digg Like this story? Get Alerts of big news events.</p><p> Enter your email address Popular Stories on HuffPost Fashion Face-Off! 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O'Sullivan worked on the film and book for almost four years.</p><p> He was scrimping and saving to get by when the BBC saw some of his footage and commissioned a feature for the TV show BBC Newsnight , the UK equivalent to 60 Minutes .</p><p> O'Sullivan also published a two page article in theGuardian the week it aired in November, 2006.</p><p> This led to financing for the rest of his film and the book deal.</p><p> He tackles everything from the girl in the polka dot dress (who reportedly ran away shouting "We killed him!") and the idea that Sirhan was a Manchurian candidate hypnotized into killing RFK, atheory lent (some) credence by long-time Columbia University professor and world renownedexpert on hypnosis Dr.</p><p> Herbert Spiegel. "It does seem far-fetched," admits O'Sullivan.</p><p> Ask him if anyone - CIA, KGB, etc. -- has ever claimed to have hypnotized or brainwashed someone else into serving as an assassin and he says,"The short answer is 'no.'" But evidence keeps coming to light: a new analysis of an audio recording made during the shooting seems to indicate 13 shots were fired (Sirhan only fired eight).</p><p> O'Sullivan hopes to interview the expert soon and add that to an update for the eventual release on DVD.</p><p> His next film is equally complex if less contentious. "My next project is about three women involved in revolutionary fighting or terrorism of the 70s," says O'Sullivan, who is focusing on Germany's Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu of Japan and Palestine's Leila Khaled . "It's about these three revolutionary women and their stories seen through the eyes of their children." 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Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to View Comments: Newest First Expand All Aramingo See Profile I'm a Fan of Aramingo permalink I think Occam's razor applies StephenS See Profile I'm a Fan of StephenS permalink I recommend that anyone thinking that in the confines of a hotel kitchen area all 5 men who captured Sirhan Sirhan somehow managed to not notice that some of the bullets were being fired by a secondperson read about analysis of the "Pruszynski Tape" at http://hnn.us/articles/44466.html .</p><p> Also, the number of professional assassins whose weapon of choice is a .22 caliber pistol (which is definitelywhat killed Bobby) is zero.</p><p> You must be logged in to reply to this comment.</p><p> Log in or Ads by Google Short Films by Honda Honda is a company built on dreams.</p><p> Watch the videos to learn more. www.honda.com Fox News Cars Women's Rights Michelle Obama Europe Newspapers Bank Of America War Wire Video MORE BIG NEWS PAGES » Books by this author A cabin of one's own: New England's MacDowellColony celebrates 100years of artistic utopia.And the gay and lesbianartists who prosperedthere celebrate ... 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