RFK ASSASSINATION WITNESS NINA RHODES-HUGHES: TWO SHOOTERS

>> NEXT "INSIDE EDITION," ON THE 44th ANNIVERSARY OF BOBBY KENNEDY'S ASSASINATION, WHAT THIS WOMAN SAID SHE SAW THAT COULD CHANGE HISTORY. >> WHY HAVE YOU BEEN QUIET FOR SO LONG? >> WATCH THE NEXT "INSIDE EDITION." >>> THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM, DREW BARRYMORE GOT MARRIED AGAIN THIS THE NEXT ROUND BUT LULU MADE A LASTING IMPRESSION. >>> WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. >> NEXT, IT'S SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU FROM BAD SUNBURNS. LOOK WHAT HE SAYS IT DID TO HIM? SPRAY ON SUNSCREEN BURSTING INTO FLAMES. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? THEN ON THE 44th ANNIVERSARY OF BOBBY KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION, WHAT THIS WOMAN SAYS SHE SAW THAT COULD CHANGE HISTORY. >> WHY HAVE YOU BEEN QUIET FOR SO LONG? >> PLUS, TRUE SPORTSMANSHIP HELPING A RIVAL CROSS THE FINISH LINE. THEN THIS. THE LADY THAT SNATCHED A SOUVENIR FROM A KID. "INSIDE EDITION" IN HIGH DEFINITION WI SUPERVISION OF THE JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, FIRE DEPARTMENT. AFTER SPRAYING IT WITH PLENTY OF SUNSCREEN THE MANNEQUIN NEVER IGNITED. THIS IS PLASTIC, NOT SKIN. BUT WHEN THEY PRAY SPRAYED IT CLOSER TO THE FIRE, THE VAPORS AND THE MANNEQUIN CAUGHT FIRE. >> IT'S THE OILS AND THE ALCOHOL BASE THAT WILL BURN YOUR BODY. >> IT'S PAINFUL LESSON THIS MAN LEARNED THE HARD WAY. >>> THIS WOMAN HELD ON TO A SECRET FOR 44 YEARS, A SECRET THAT COULD AFFECT HISTORY. IN 1968 SHE WAS AN EYEWITNESS TO THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. NOW ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH SHE IS STEPPING FORWARD WITH A SHOCKING ASSERTION. SHE BELIEVES THAT SIRHAN SIRHAN DID NOT ACT ALONE. SHE SPOKE TO JIM MORET. >> I HEAR POP POP, POP POP. >> THIS EYEWITNESS WAS STANDING SIX FEET AWAY FROM BOBBY KENNEDY WHEN HE WAS GUNNED DOWN. >> THERE IS MAYHEM. PEOPLE ARE FALLING AND SCREAMING AND I AM DUCKING AND THEN I SEE THE SENATOR FALL. I AM FOLLOWING HIM.■9 >> NINA RHODES HUGHES WAS A 34- YEAR-OLD SOAP OPERA ACTRESS AND VOLUNTEER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. ON ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED AMERICA, SHE IS COMING FORWARD WITH A NEW CLAIM THAT SIRHAN SIRHAN DID NOT ACT ALONE. >> YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SIRHAN SIRHAN WAS THE ONLY GUNMAN. >> I AM 6 TO 7 FEET AWAY FROM THE SENATOR, BETWEEN BOTH OF THEM, BETWEEN SIRHAN SIRHAN AND THE SENATOR. THEN SUDDENLY I'M AWARE AT THE SAME TIME THAT THERE ARE SHOTS TO MY RIGHT. >> THIS IS THE SIDE OF L.A.'S AMBASSADOR HOTEL WHERE BOBBY KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED. THE HOTEL WAS DEMOLISHED IN 2006. THERE IS A HIGH SCHOOL ALONG WITH A MEMORIAL. THERE WERE CONSPIRACY THEORIES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS BUT THIS COMES FROM A EYEWITNESS WHO SAYS THE OFFICIAL REPORT ALTERED HER ACCOUNT OF WHAT SHE SAW AND HEARD IN THE HOTEL KITCHEN THAT NIGHT. THE FBI SAYS SIRHAN SIRHAN FIRED EIGHT SHOTS AND EMPTIED HIS GUN AT KENNEDY. RHODES HUGHES SAID SHE HEARD MORE SHOTS THAN THAT. >> HOW MANY DO YOU BELIEVE WERE FIRED? >> BETWEEN 12 AND 14. BECAUSE IT WENT THIS WAY. IT WENT POP POP POP, THEN POP, POP, POP, POP, POP. DIFFERENT SOUNDS. >> FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. >> FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. >> THIS IS HOW THE 24-YEAR-OLD SIRHAN SIRHAN LOOKED IN 1968. HERE HE IS IN HIS LATEST PRISON MUG SHOT AT AGE 68. HE IS SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE AND SAYS HE WAS BRAINWASHED INTO SHOOTING RFK. IN A 1989 INTERVIEW WITH "INSIDE EDITION, HE NEVER HINTED AT A CONSPIRACY. >> I SINCERELY REGRET MY ACTIONS FOR THAT. I WAS YOUNG. I WAS IMMATURE. I WAS WILD. THAT'S ALL I CAN OFFER IS MY APOLOGIES AND REMORSE. >> NOW SIRHAN SIRHAN'S LAWYERS ARE ASKING FOR A RETRIAL BASED PARTLY ON WHAT ROSE SAID SHE SAW. SHE SAYS SHE HAS NO DOUBT ABOUT SIRHAN'S GUILT BUT CLAIMS THERE IS A COVER UP IN THE CASE. SKEPTICS SAY THE KITCHEN WAS PACKED WITH WITNESSES THAT WOULD HAVE GRABBED A SHOOTER IF ONE EXISTED. >> WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE THAT DISMISS YOU AS A NUT. >> LIKE SEEING ALIENS IN A SPACESHIP. OH, YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE. NO. NO, THERE WERE MORE SHOTS. >> THE CALIFORNIA PAROLE BOARD REJECTED HIS APPLICATION FOR PAROLE FOR THE 13th TIME. >>> COMING UP, TWO VIDEOS OF SPORTSMANSHIP, ONE GOOD, ONE REALLY BAD. >> CLOSED CAPTION SPONSORSHIP FOR "INSIDE EDITION" IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: