Sirhan Sirhan

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Who is Sirhan Sirhan?

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.

Sirhan was born in British-ruled Jerusalem and is a strong opponent of Israel. In 1989, he told David Frost, "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians." Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the United States stemming from the Arab–Israeli conflict in the Middle East.

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Born
Mar 19, 1944
Jerusalem
Also known as
  • Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Parents
Siblings
Religion
  • Palestinian Christians
Ethnicity
  • Arabs
  • Palestinian American
Nationality
  • Jordan
  • Mandatory Palestine
Profession
Education
  • Pasadena City College
  • John Muir High School
  • Charles W. Eliot Middle School
Employment
  • Santa Anita Park
Lived in
  • Jerusalem
  • California
  • New York

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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