</s>The only real solution is to look for a compromise. He does. He finds the symbolic replica of his father in the form of Kennedy, kills him and also removes the relationship that stands between him and his most precious possession, his mother's love. "I. Rep. Tr. pp. 5850-51, 6292-9h.) On redirect examination Mr. Schorr testified that at the time of the conversations between appellant and police officers following the arrest, appellant was in a "dissociate state." Schorr perceived "a striking lack of consciousness, awareness of why he was being detained and the second most striking thing ... was the lack of the usual kind of hostilities that he reserved in responding to questions relating to his monomania." (Rep. Tr. pp ., 6233-24.) "Another point is he almost immediately reverses the role con- sistent with a paranoid mechanism where he puts him- self above and beyond and, instead of being interrogated, he becomes the interrogator." (rep. Tr ., p. 6325.) On recess-examination Mr. Schrörer testified that appellant "can predimeditate," "has that ability," "LaJnd he also has the ability to harbor or have malice" but not "the ability to have a mature reflection 77. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 4, 1968.

Sirhan Sirhan was diagnosed with no mental illness or psychosis and had the ability to reason logically and understand the full meaning of killing Kennedy.

Dr. Pollack's evaluation concluded that Sirhan's motives were non-psychotic, and no evidence of dissociative state, psychosis, schizophrenia, severe paranoid delusions, personality disorganization, or brain disease was found.

Sirhan's capacity to harbor intent and carry out the act was not substantially impaired, and his mental capacity was not decreased when committing the assassination.

Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, was also targeted by Sirhan due to his pro-Israeli stance.

The Arab-Israeli conflict played a significant role in the motivations behind the assassination.

Dr. Pollack hypnotized Sirhan on three occasions and was present on several occasions when Dr. Diamond hypnotized him, but Sirhan's behavior at the time of the assassination and at the tone of the writing of the notebooks was "substantially different" from what would be expected from a hypnotized person and from Sirhan's behavior when he was hypnotized in the presence of Dr. Pollack and Dr. Diamond.

Dr. Pollock formed the definite opinion that none of these writings by themselves or in total are evidence of psychosis, and Sirhan had always been a "very sensitive young man" with a "high regard for human life" who had to overcome this conviction by building up his courage and intention to carry out his plan.

Appellant's repetition of the word "die" was the same for him as underscoring the word for emphasis, and Dr. Pollack believed that the possibility of a hypnotic trance at the time Sirhan committed the assassination was extremely remote, as was the conjecture that the notebooks had been written in such a trance.

The fact that Sirhan was so easily hypnotized suggested that he was not severely or psychotically disturbed, since it is very difficult to hypnotize an individual who is actually psychotic.

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