The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress: New Light on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

by Carl Wernerhoff

The assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 - which has officially been attributed to a young Palestinian man, Sirhan Sirhan - was one of the most shattering events of that insane year and one of the major turning points in modern American history. In this powerful expose, Carl Wernerhoff reveals that the girl wearing a white and black polka dot dress who was seen with Sirhan shortly before the murder was a young schoolteacher from Jackson, Mississippi - a fanatical racist working for the Ku Klux Klan - named Kathy Ainsworth. She was 'the girl in the polka dot dress' - the girl the LAPD said never existed.

79 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2011

About the author

Carl Wernerhoff is the pseudonym for a Sydney-based conspiracy researcher with a particular interest in the history of political assassinations and orchestrated tragedies such as the Port Arthur and Columbine massacres.

He has a PhD in History and currently works as a teacher

Reviews

[Robert Kirkconnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

The LAPD destroyed almost all of the evidence in this case, to include 24oo photos, a door jam with bullet holes in it, and ceiling tiles also shot through. The FBI just could not seem to do even the most superficial investigation. Why? Author Carl Wernerhoff explains what they were hiding, and he did one super-job of doing so. Explosive!

[Tom Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

A woman wearing a polka dot was seen before and after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Like many, I am fascinated by considering who she may have been and what her role was. This book builds on Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, linking that apparent ADL-FBI plot to silence forever Kathy Ainsworth. Ainsworth is deemed to be "The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress".

Early on the morning of June 30, 1968, Kathy Ainsworth and Thomas Tarrants (believed her to be a co-conspirator in the RFK slaying) drove to the home of Meyer Davidson planning to place a homemade bomb consisting of 29 sticks of dynamite. Los Angeles Times reporter Jack Nelson documented the payment of $36,500 by ADL director Adolph Botnick, acting as agent provocateur, to two Klansmen, Raymond and Alton Wayne Roberts, in order to set up Tarrants in an ambush organized by the FBI and local police. Ainsworth was substituted for another Tarrants colleague and the author believes that was so that both RFK assassination conspirators could be killed at the same time.