William Joseph Bryan
William Joseph Bryan, Jr. was a pioneering American hypnotist. He was a great grandson of Williams Jennings Bryan. He is famous for inducing Albert DeSalvo'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 to fire blanks at Robert F. Kennedy with posthypnotic suggestion. Other conspiracy theorists have repeated this claim. Bryan died before he could sue for libel.
Bryan was found dead in a Las Vegas hotel room in 1978.
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