Trailer | The RFK Tapes

Fifty years after the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, questions about the crime still linger. The RFK Tapes will explore the case through rare recordings and new interviews to try to understand what really happened on June 5, 1968. A new ten-part documentary series from the makers of Crimetown. Premiering June 5.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Ambassador Hotel, downtown Los Angeles, June fifth, nineteen sixty eight.
But I think is quite clear is that we can
work together in the last analysis, and that what has
been going on within the United States over the period
of the last three years, a violent year, within a
violent decade, America is tearing itself apart reasons, whether it's

(00:27):
between blacks and whites, between the four there are protests
in the streets over civil rights, against the Vietnam War.
You can start to work together. We are a great
country and hope and I intend to make that my basis.
We're running and over the period of that. Senator Robert F.
Kennedy has just won the California Democratic primary. My thanks
to all of you, and now it's onto Chicago and

(00:49):
let's win there. But to get to the White House,
you'll have to pass through the hotel's kitchen pantry. Senator
Kennedy has been shot player within seconds, a young gunman
is tackled by the crowd, revolver in hand, instantly joining

(01:10):
the likes of John Wilkes Booth, James Earl Ray, and
Lee Harvey Oswald as one of the most notorious political
assassins in American history. Men normally known by all three
of their names. We know who committed to decline, but
this man is name only two appears to be well
technically Shan just one s twenty four year old shar

(01:35):
Han Sarah Rhan Sirhand guilty of murder in the first degree.
San was formerly sevenced of death. Shirhan Sharan is the
murderer of Senator Robert Kennedy. And only he alone who's
the murderer. Sir Han sir Han was locked away and
all the evidence collected by police, photographs, bullets, and hours

(01:57):
and hours of witness recordings that was locked away too.
We've done it because someday somebody, for purposes best known
of themselves is going to try to prove that Sarah
and didn't do it, that this was a conspiracy. We
knew it would happened, well fifty years later. It was
an investigation at all. It's a big cover up. It's

(02:18):
happening from Trimetown. This is the RFK tapes. I'm Zack
start Pantier and this they talk about conspiracy theorists. Is
Bill Klaiber. You know I'm a conspiracy theorist. Well I'm not.
I'm a researcher. Bill says, we still don't have the
full story of what happened that night in the pantry
of the Ambassador Hotel. There are more bullets fired in

(02:43):
the pantry. Thence her hand hasn't just gone. And that's
to a virtual certainty. And now in his search for
the truth, Bill's looking for some help. And I wonder
if maybe we might go back and explore this thing
together my help. Over the next ten episodes, Bill Claibur

(03:06):
is going to pull me down the rabbit hole of
the Robert F. Kennedy assassination as a girl came running
down the stairs and said, we've shot him. We've shot him,
We've shot Senator Kennedy. We'll track down the people who
were there, people were working overtime to discredit me, and
hear the tapes the LAPD kept secret for over twenty years,

(03:27):
Why sing at? What were they trying to hide? And
we'll dive into the mind of the young man at
the center of it all for yours your last chance?
For am you're shooting Kennedy? Now? Huh? The RFK Tapes

(03:47):
a ten part audio documentary series from the producers of Crimetown.
Find It June fifth, wherever you get your podcasts. Okay,
so I need your driver's license please. We'll bring you
who solving the crime of the Century. Well that should
be interesting. M