Assassination Data

As information does not seem to exist these days unless it is on the internet, I offer the following excerpt from "The Execution of Robert Kennedy", A Campaign for Democratic Freedom Special Report by Donald Freed (1975).

Independent investigators have learned that a $25,000 assassination "contract" has been let on the life of Sirhan B. Sirhan.

The murder contract on the life of Mr. Sirhan and another inmate in San Quentin state prison, Ronald Wood, was first offered to two San Quentin inmates in 1972. According to the two inmates who were offered money to eliminate Mr. Sirhan and Mr. Wood, the man who contacted them was a convicted Watergate conspirator, and ex-CIA.

Investigators and Mr. Younger's office were warned in 1973 of the danger to Mr. Sirhan and Mr. Wood. In 1974 Ronald Wood wrote to Nevada Assemblyman Danny Demers that he had learned new details concerning the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Wood wrote Assemblyman Demers in September in September 1974 that he had learned new details concerning the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Wood wrote Assemblyman Demers in September that he had come to know Sirhan while the two were locked up in the same maximum security unit at San Quentin, where Sirhan confided to him. Investigators searched frantically within the prison system for Mr. Wood, but days later Wood was found stabbed to death in the Carson City, Nevada State Prison facility. California prison officials said that Wood, a "valued informant", had been transferred to Nevada for "his own protection."

However, Nevada officials report that they were never instructed to take special precautions to protect Wood.

Both prison systems are insisting that Wood's connection to Sirhan had nothing to do with his death.

More tomorrow.