Interesting...

Was "The Manchurian Candidate" a model for the RFK assassination?

Both Evans and Sirhan's lawyer, Larry Teeter, are convinced that the Palestinian activist was chosen to be a Manchurian Candidate-style assassin. In the 1962 film, remade last year, and based on a novel by Richard Condon, a former prisoner of war from the Korean conflict is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin.

Evans and Teeter believe that while Sirhan fired several shots, none of them hit Kennedy. The assassination, they say, was carried out by a professional hitman who fled immediately, leaving Sirhan to take the blame.

It was only because Kennedy had dismissed his Los Angeles police bodyguards that Sirhan survived and was not gunned down on the spot as his controllers had intended, reports Evans.

Two related points--
1) there was a FOX TV show pilot ("The Lone Gunmen") where the plot involved remote-controlled planes being flown into the WTC-- this was BEFORE 9/11. It's sort of like Hollywood writes the script for the CIA sometimes.

2) Tim McVeigh of OK City bombing fame always seemed a little robotic. It seems quite likely that he was a patsy programmed by hypnosis-- especially considering his truck bomb wasn't strong enough to tear down the building AND they found other bombs planted around the Murrah building.

UPDATE: Jeff Wells knows a hell of a lot more about the JFK assassination than I do. I was pretty young when it happened, and have never read anything significant about it since. All I really remember was how nasty the sixties were-- the Vietnam war, and the JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X assassinations.