Scott Enyart was a 15-year old schoolboy at the time of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. He happened to be present in the Ambassador hotel, with his camera, when the incident occurred. Enyart claims he was taking photographs of Kennedy at the exact moment when the bullets struck him, and watched him "fall from the frame."

Enyart's photographs were confiscated by police. Some images of the photographs he had taken earlier in the evening, when Kennedy was delivering his speech, were later returned to him but the crucial shots surrounding the moment of the assassination were withheld.

Enyart was told that the court had sealed all evidence in the case for 20 years. So he waited 20 years then asked for his photographs to be returned to him. At first, the authorities told him they had been lost, then announced that some had been found and would be taken to Enyart by courier. The courier then declared that the photographs had been stolen from his car in transit. Enyart sued the City of Los Angeles and won a $450,000 judgement.