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Sirhan Sirhan has a new story about what happened the night Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel. For the first time, his lawyers say, hypnosis sessions have revealed that Sirhan believes he was under the control of a woman wearing a polka-dot dress and that he thought he was at a firing range, seeing circles with targets in front of his eyes. "He says he never planned to kill Kennedy and lawyers say another gunman killed the senator with Sirhan used as a diversion," Linda Deutsch reports for AP.
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