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Sirhan Sirhan
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assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (born 1944)
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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a male human born on March 19, 1944, in Jerusalem, which was part of Mandatory Palestine at the time and is now Israel. He holds citizenship in Jordan and speaks English. His occupation is listed as a groom, and he was educated at Pasadena City College.
Sirhan is associated with the significant event of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. He was convicted of deliberate murder and sentenced to capital punishment and incarceration. He has been detained at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility and California State Prison, Corcoran.
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Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine [now Israel]
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Known for
- LA 92 — Self (archive footage)2017
- Infamous Assassinations — Self (archive footage)2012
- L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK? — Self (archive footage)2007
- RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy — Self (archive footage)2007
- Conspiracy? — Self (archive footage)2004
- Death Scenes 2 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1992
- The Killing of America — Self1981
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Key facts
- Born
- Sirhan Bishara Sirhan , ( 1944-03-19 ) March 19, 1944 (age 82) , Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine
- Citizenship
- Palestinian (1944–48), Jordanian (1949–present)
- Known for
- Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- Criminal status
- Incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (as of 2026)
- Motive
- Retribution for Kennedy's support for Israel following the Six-Day War
- Convictions
- 6 counts
- Criminal penalty
- Death by gas chamber (1969, commuted ) Life imprisonment with the possibility of parole (1972)
- Date
- June 5, 1968, 12:15 a.m.
- Locations
- Ambassador Hotel , Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Target
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Killed
- 1 (Kennedy)
- Weapon
- Iver Johnson .22 LR revolver
- Date apprehended
- June 5, 1968
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jordan
- Place of birth
- Jerusalem
- Occupation
- groom
- Educated at
- Pasadena City College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Sirhan Sirhan in 2021.jpg
- Significant event
- assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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- Sirhan Sirhan
- date of birth
- 1944-03-19
- place of detention
- California State Prison, Corcoran
- birth name
- Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
- penalty
- incarceration
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Encyclopedic overview
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/sɪərˈhɑːn/; Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election on June 5, 1968. Sirhan was 24 years old at the time. On April 17, 1969, he was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges. He was subsequently sentenced to death by gas chamber. In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of People v. Anderson. The circumstances surrounding the attack, which took place five years after President Kennedy's assassination, have led to numerous conspiracy theories.
In 1989, Sirhan told British journalist David Frost: "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 fighter jets 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 Israeli–Palestinian conflict (Sirhan carried out the attack on the first anniversary of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War), although it occurred at a time when the American public was overwhelmingly focused on the Vietnam War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sirhan Sirhan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.