William Klaber is a part-time journalist who lives with his wife Jean in upstate New York. In 1990 he joined a group of researchers who were going through the newly opened LAPD files concerning the murder of Robert Kennedy who had been murdered in Los Angeles in 1968 moments after winning the California presidential primary. A young gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, was caught at the scene, but despite of the seeming open and shut nature of the case, the police files were kept secret. Why?

What the researchers found answered that question, and in 1992 the group filed a formal Request to the LA County Grand Jury asking for a special prosecutor to investigate the LAPD for “willful and corrupt misconduct” in its investigation of the Kennedy murder. The Request was accompanied by 800 pages of exhibits drawn from the files which documented the LAPD’s “destruction of evidence, falsification of evidence and coercion of witnesses.”

When the Grand Jury failed to act, Mr. Klaber went back to New York where he produced a public radio documentary that featured startling audio tapes that had been hidden in the police files. The one-hour documentary was titled The RFK Tapes, and it played on 160 public radio stations across the country. So compelling was this new material that Time magazine gave the program a full-page review. A book offer from St. Martin’s Press followed, and Professor Philip Melanson joined Mr. Klaber in this endeavor. Shadow Play came out in 1997 and it explored the many newly opened questions surrounding the Kennedy murder. Since 1997 there have been a handful of significant developments in the case, and these are fully explored in the new edition of Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert Kennedy.