Psychological DNA

A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. Kennedy

John C. Brady

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Trine Day
11 October 2024

History of the Americas

It has been more than fifty years since presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, RFK, was murdered at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel in L.A. only five years after his brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged shooter who gunned down RFK, the man with an odd name, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, (Sirhan) a twenty-four-year old Palestinian was apprehended at the scene of the crime with the smoking gun still in his hand leading to the conclusion that this seemingly was an open and shut case, or was it? Subsequently, Sirhan was tried and convicted of first-degree murder though his appointed defense team stitched together a poorly formed, modified insanity defense complicated by many unforced errors made by attorneys and expert psychologists and internationally known psychiatrist, Dr. Bernard Diamond. In PSYCH DNA, Dr. Brady who was immersed in the case from the beginning using modern criminological methods and new psychological assessment tools not available five decades ago has reassessed Sirhan'

s mental state arriving at five current mental conditions that, in his opinion, if presented at trial could have changed the jury'

s verdict and spared Sirhan a trip to San Q

By: John C. Brady
Imprint: Trine Day
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781634244879
ISBN 10: 1634244877
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 11 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. John C. Brady II, a California-licensed forensic psychologist, is the author of six true crime books in his Bad Actor Series. He is a psychologist and criminologist with a masters and doctorate in criminology from UC Berkeley. He has used both disciplines and his forty-plus years in private practice to discover why ordinary, law-abiding people suddenly begin to engage in criminal acts. In this seventh and most recent book, Psych DNA, he explains the criminal-psychological drivers that led Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Dr. Brady has diagnosed and treated dissociati

Reviews for Psychological DNA: A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. Kennedy

""Psycholgical DNA is a valuable read for anyone with an interest in presenting the defense of insanity in criminal trials.""--Walter D. Braud, retired State of Illinois Circuit Judge ""I find his psychological analysis both fascinating and intriguing and an important contribution to RFK assassination literature.""--Mel Ayton, author of The Forgotten Terrorist - Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with a Foreword by Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz (2019)