John Frankenheimer
In “JFK, RFK, John Frankenheimer, and the Mystery of Sirhan Sirhan”, I briefly discuss the Manchurian Candidate director’s strangely intimate connection to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, questioning Frankenheimer’s claim about having been the presidential aspirant’s “best friend” [1]. I do not, however, doubt his assertion that, “His death was the defining moment of my life,” nor do I discount the psychological strain and decline Frankenheimer describes as having resulted from this event. In his 1998 essay “My Not So Brilliant Career”, he writes that “the incident affected my perspective on life” and that as a result his “career was defused”, adding, “It took a long time to reinvest my life with some kind of meaning. I finished...