William Joseph Bryan, Jr. was a pioneering American hypnotist. He is famous for inducing Albert DeSalvo

Albert DeSalvo

Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area. DeSalvo was not imprisoned for these murders, however, but for a series of rapes...

's confession to multiple homicide under hypnosis. He ran the American Institute of Hypnosis, edited his own journal, and created the Bryan method of hypnoanalysis.

William Turner and Jonn Christian hypothesized in The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy that Bryan was responsible for inducing Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen who was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He is serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California.Sirhan was a Christian Arab born in Jerusalem who strongly opposed Israel...

 to fire blanks at Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...

 with posthypnotic suggestion.William Turner. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Random House: New York, 1978. p. 227-228 Other conspiracy theorists have repeated this claim. Bryan died before he could sue for libel.

Bryan was found dead in a Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

hotel room in 1978.