There is Greg Clayton, Mrs. Carlos Gallegos, Booker Griffin, Pamela Russo, Susan Locke, et al. More than a dozen witnesses placed Sirhan with the girl and other men at the hotel that night. And yet, "the LAPD, less than a month after the 'girl in the polka-dot dress' had gone world-wide, denied her existence, this in spite of the numerous witnesses who had seen her."
John Fahey: The Key Witness
While all these witnesses are crucial, the most important, whose story is at the core of Faura's investigation, is John Fahey.
A week after the assassination, Fahey had read an article Faura had written about another witness. He approached him to talk. He told Faura that he hadn't gone to the police because he was afraid and asked if Faura could give him protection. Faura agreed to meet with him and tape-recorded his story, the transcript of which is printed verbatim as chapter ten.
As he writes, "The story the stranger told is one of the most important, fascinating and mystery-ridden of all those that would come to light."
Following is a summary.
Fahey, a salesman for Cal-Tech, a chemical company, was at the Ambassador Hotel early on the morning of June 4, 1968 to meet another salesman. By the time Fahey arrived late, the other salesman had left. He meets "a pretty lady" whom he invites to breakfast and with whom he then spends the day.
She tells him she's only been in town three days, that she came from New York City, and that she was from another country whose name he didn't hear clearly -- "something like Beirut or something like this -- is there a Beirut?"
When he asks her what she's doing there, she replies cryptically, "Well, I don't want to get you involved." And she repeats that she is not sure she can trust him. She is very nervous and jittery; her hands are sweating.
She tells him they are being watched and followed, which Fahey notices and confirms. She invites him to accompany her later that night to the "'winning reception' and watch them get Mr. Kennedy." He asks her what she means, but she doesn't say; just repeats, "I don't want to get you involved."
As they leave the hotel together via an unobtrusive stairwell that takes them up to the lobby, she tells him that she knows the hotel stair routes very well although she is not staying there and has been in town just a few days. She says she has to be back at the Ambassador that night. They spend the day driving up the coast together and are followed by a man in another car. They stop and have dinner on the drive back.
Fahey describes her: "She looks Caucasian, but has an Arabic complexion, very light".very good English".a little accent when she wants to put it on".around 27,28".dirty blond hair ".very pretty".hooked nose." She gives different names; is obviously frightened; asks for Fahey's assistance in helping her escape to Australia the next day so "the Chinese can't get her there."
He leaves the girl back at the Ambassador Hotel at 7 PM. Although no sex was involved, Fahey is nervous because he has picked up the girl and spent the day with her and doesn't want his wife to find out. But he is especially nervous because of the day's strange experiences and the subsequent assassination of RFK.
Faura logically concludes that "Fahey's lengthy and dramatic tale, if true, boiled down to a conspiracy." From Fahey's description the girl sounded like the girl in the polka-dot dress described by others. But Faura needed to confirm Fahey's veracity. So they retraced the route Fahey said he took with the girl. Malibu, Santa Monica, the Trancas restaurant, the road to Ventura. All the details of the trip checked out. But what about the girl? It was still only Fahey's word. Faura would need to find a witness that saw Fahey with the girl.
Sketch of the Girl Who Disappears
He has an artist do a sketch of the mystery girl based on witnesses' descriptions. All confirm that the sketch looks very much like the girl in the polka-dot dress they saw. Then he shows it to Fahey who says it looks like the girl he spent the day with. Yet this still doesn't prove he actually spent the day with the girl. Faura needs further confirmation.
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