Shane O'Sullivan (born 1969) is an Irish writer and
filmmaker
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...
based in London. He is best known for his work on the assassination of Robert Kennedy. His feature documentary ''
RFK Must Die
''RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy'' is a 2007 investigative documentary by Irish writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan. The film expands on O'Sullivan's earlier reports for BBC ''Newsnight'' and ''The Guardian'' and explores cons ...
'' is the first theatrical documentary on the case since
Ted Charach's ''The Second Gun'', which was released in October 1973. His book on the case, ''Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy'' was published by Union Square Press to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the assassination on 5 June 2008.
His second feature documentary,
Children of the Revolution, tells the stories of
Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author ...
and
Fusako Shigenobu
is a Japanese Communism, communist activist and founder of the disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). , leaders of the German
Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970.
The ...
and the
Japanese Red Army
The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971 and was most active i ...
, 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.
His most recent book, Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate and the CIA, was published in 2018 by Skyhorse Publishing.
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Living people
1969 births
Irish writers
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