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Reynolds: "What did you do when you got there?"
Sirhan: "It was hot that night and I was very thirsty. I remember that....I went to the bar and had four drinks within about 15 minutes. I couldn't seem to get enough to drink....They were Tom Collins's....(but) I wasn't drunk. I felt drugged. I think somebody slipped something into my drinks. My legs and arms became rubbery. I remember standing by my car but I couldn't drive so I went back inside and got some coffee."
Reynolds: "How did you get downstairs to the pantry?"
Sirhan: "Somebody guided me. I don't know who."
Reynolds: "Did you have your gun with you?"
Sirhan: "Yes. When I was in the pantry, the gun was in my hand."
Reynolds: "Did you know Robert Kennedy was going to be walking toward you?"
Sirhan: "No. I didn't know where I was and I don't know how I got there. I was in a state of blackout."
Reynolds: "You were a Manchurian candidate....It's something the CIA uses. They assassinate a president, or senator, or anyone they wish, and make it look like some crazed, lone-nut assassin did it. But he has been heavily drugged, possibly with LSD, and undergone intense brainwashing followed by reprogramming. Everything you're saying about yourself follows the established pattern of the drugged, duped, CIA patsy."
Sirhan: "They used me, framed me, and they set me up to die."
Reynolds: "Do you remember firing the gun that was in your hand?"
Sirhan: "I can't remember. I was blacked out. I remember feeling woozy and it felt like I was falling down....I don't remember the things that happened that night."
Reynolds: "Do you remember being led in handcuffs out of the Ambassador Hotel and made to sit in the back seat of a police car?"
Sirhan: "I remember being led away but I didn't know why they were doing this to me. Nobody told me anything."
He was interrogated by the police for about 24 hours, detectives telling him he murdered RFK. "They yelled at me. They kept shoving papers at me demanding that I sign...They were documents saying I killed Kennedy. Confession. They insisted I had murdered Robert F. Kennedy and they demanded I confess and sign the papers....At first I resisted, but later I confessed and signed the papers. They broke me down and I told them I would do anything they wanted me to do. I just wanted it to stop."
After he confessed, he was taken to a cell and allowed to sleep. A court trial followed where his "interrogators convinced me to plead guilty and ask for the death penalty....I told the judge I was guilty and wanted the death penalty," explaining he was ashamed.
