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'''Shane O'Sullivan''' is an Irish writer and filmmaker, based in London. He is best known for his work on the assassination of Robert Kennedy. His feature documentary [http://www.rfkmustdie.com RFK Must Die]' is the first theatrical documentary on the case since Ted Charach's ''The Second Gun'' twenty-five years ago. His book on the case, [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/RFK-Must-Die/Shane-OSullivan/e/9781402754449/?btob=P Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy] will be published by Union Square Press to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the assassination on June 5th, 2008.
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'''Shane O'Sullivan''' (born 1969) is an Irish writer and [[filmmaker,]] based in London. He is best known for his work on the assassination of Robert Kennedy. His feature documentary ''[[http://www.rfkmustdie.com RFK Must Die]]'' is the first theatrical documentary on the case since [[Ted Charach]]'s ''The Second Gun'', twenty-fivewhich yearswas agoreleased in October 1973. His book on the case, [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/RFK-Must-Die/Shane-OSullivan/e/9781402754449/?btob=P ''Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy] will'' bewas published by Union Square Press to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the assassination on 5 June 5th, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/from-bobby-to-barack-1.946983|title=From Bobby to Barack|date=26 July 2008|accessdate=2 September 2018|work=[[The Irish Times]]|first=Richard|last=Aldous}}</ref>
 
His second feature documentary, [[Children of the Revolution (documentary)|Children of the Revolution]], tells the stories of [[Ulrike Meinhof]] and [[Fusako Shigenobu]], leaders of the German [[Red Army Faction]] and the [[Japanese Red Army]], and premiered at IDFA in 2010. It was released in thirty cinemas across Japan in 2014. His third feature, Killing Oswald, was released in 2013, on the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
 
His most recent book, Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate and the CIA, was published in 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing.{{cn|date=July 2022}}
 
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0642811}}
 
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