Speculative claims linking Sirhan Sirhan to tobacco industry and hypnosis programs in RFK assassination discussion

On the program, hosted by former Saturday Night Live cast member Kevin Nealon, | mentioned that Kennedy had once been on the Jonight show, telling Johnny Carson that cigarettes kill more people than marijuana, and | speculated that Sirhan Sirhan was a hired gun for the tobacco companies. On a more literal note, | talked about the ballistics Inconsistency; a total of ten bullets was found, though Sirhan’ s gun could hold only eight. And | discussed the fact that psychiatrist Bernard Diamond described in Psychology Today how, during the trial, post-hypnotic suggestion was used to program Sirhan into climbing the bars of his cell like a monkey. However, in the book RFK Must Die, Robert Kaiser, who was there, wrote: “Sirhan had no idea what he was doing up on the top of the bars. When he finally discovered that climbing was not his own idea, but rather Dr. Diamond’ s, he was struck with the plausibility of the idea that perhaps he had been programmed by some else, in like manner, to kill Kennedy.” There were two others on that TV panel, plus a separate segment with a dentist who practices hypnosis. One panelist was Michael Ruppert, a former member of the Los Angeles Police Department, Narcotics Division, who became a prolific HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015270