Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan is an Arab "Palestinian" extremist and Jordanian citizen who carried out the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It is believed that he carried out the murder because Kennedy strongly supported Israel. He was captured at the scene by Rosey Grier, a well-known NFL player.
After being convicted of the crime in 1969 and initially sentenced to death in the gas chamber, his sentence was commuted in 1972 to life in prison at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.
Neo-Nazis' allied Issa Nakhleh, sent by his boss, al-Husseini, the ex Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,[1] represented Sirhan Sirhan.
| “ | At an emergency meeting of the group held during the assassin's trial, Issa Nakhleh, a former senior adviser to the UN Palestinian Delegation, described Sirhan as an “Arab guerrilla” whose murder of Mr Kennedy was “motivated by political events”.
“Nakhleh informed the group that one of his aims in briefing the group was to enlist their support for a trip to the Middle East which he planned to make in order to collect funds to aid Sirhan's defence,” reads the document... It also alleges that Mr Nakhleh had in the past been accused of being a “loose handler” of funds – that he had previously raised money for various causes, but that the funds later “found a way into his pockets”.[2] |
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- ↑ Justice Department Keeps Watch on Arab Students Group As Sirhan Probe Continues. JTA, June 24, 1968
- ↑ 'Kennedy must fall': CIA releases Sirhan Sirhan diary pages and RFK assassination files.
Palestinian who emigrated from Jordan to the US shot and killed Democratic presidential hopeful in 1968.
Cody Combs, The National, June 12, 2025.
