Key witness to RFK assassination says Sirhan Sirhan didn’t act alone

Rhodes, a long-overlooked witness to the murder, tellsCNN in an exclusive interview that she heard two guns firing during the 1968 shooting and that authorities altered her account of the crime.

“There were more than eight shots, and it’s interesting that you read whatever the FBI issued, everybody else said eight shots,” Rhodes-Hughes said.

Sirhan Sirhan is the only person to have ever been arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of RFK.

As he is currently serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, Calif., The U.S District Court in Los Angeles is set to rule on a request by the 68-year-old Sirhan that he be released, retried or granted a hearing on new evidence, including Rhodes-Hughes’ firsthand account.

“For me it’s hopeful and sad that it’s only coming out now instead of before — but at least now instead of never,” Rhodes-Hughes told CNN by phone from her home near Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rhodes-Hughes, now a 78-year-old Vancouver resident, is an American-born television actress and local theatre enthusiast, who was serving as a volunteer fundraiser for Kennedy’s campaign when he was fatally shot in a kitchen pantry at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968.

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