The Nation: The Making of a Lonely Misfit

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Police described Bremer's car as a "hotel on wheels." In it they found blankets, pillows, binoculars, a woman's umbrella, a tape recorder, a portable radio with police band, an electric shaver, photographic equipment, a 1972 copy of Writer's Yearbook, two books on the assassination of Robert Kennedy entitled Sirhan and RFK Must Die, and a Browning 9-mm. semiautomatic pistol. With no hard evidence to support the possibility that Bremer was a hired assassin, investigators say that the merchandise in his car indicates that Bremer, who had only $2 in his pocket when he was arrested, might have financed his travels through petty thievery.

Bremer now faces a possible maximum penalty of life imprisonment or death. Markedly docile and indifferent after his arrest, he had one burning question. While being driven to the Baltimore county jail on the night of the shooting, Bremer asked FBI agents: "How much do you think I'll get for my autobiography?"

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