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The Ballad of Billy Balls

S1 [6] The Manchurian Candidate | The RFK Tapes

The Ballad of Billy Balls

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.49.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

To prepare for Sirhan Sirhan’s 2011 parole hearing, his current legal team brings in an expert to investigate whether or not Sirhan was hypno-programmed to shoot Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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0:00.0

This is Dr. Pollock February 1969 with Sir Hanserhand interviewed by Dr. Diamond and also

0:11.6

Mr. Robert Kaiser.

0:13.2

Dr. Diamond would put Sirhand under hypnosis in the cell, give him a suggestion under hypnosis.

0:22.7

This is Robert Kaiser, a journalist who is in the room when defense and prosecution psychiatrists

0:28.5

hypnotize Sir Hanserhand.

0:30.5

Sirhand, when I bring you out of hypnosis you're going to feel very, very good, but when I take

0:36.4

out my handkerchief that will be a signal for you to climb the bars of your cell like a monkey.

0:41.2

All right now, Sirhand, you're going to be coming out of your deep sleep and when you wake

0:46.6

up you will feel very, very good.

0:49.2

And then five minutes later, Sirhand's climbing the bars of his cell like a monkey.

0:53.5

You look over at Diamond and he's been blowing his nose.

0:58.4

And Diamond says to Sirhand in front of me and the attorneys, Sirhand, what are you doing

1:02.7

up there?

1:03.7

Oh, I'm just getting some exercise, he says.

1:07.6

That was what he thought he was doing.

1:10.5

That's a plausible explanation.

1:12.3

Anyone that's under that influence will always give you a plausible explanation, but it won't

1:17.8

be the right one.

1:18.8

We all knew that he'd been programmed.

1:22.6

And neither Diamond nor the attorneys would listen to me for a moment when I suggested that

1:29.1

he may have been hypnotized and programmed to kill Kennedy under a hypnotic state.

1:38.5

Sirhand's original attorneys didn't buy the idea that he had been hypnotized and programmed

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