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'''Sirhan Sirhan''' is an [[Arab]] "[[Palestine|Palestinian]]" extremist and [[Jordan]]ian 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.
'''Sirhan Sirhan''' is an [[Arab]] "[[Palestine|Palestinian]]" extremist and [[Jordan]]ian 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.
Sirhan was active in [[M.T. Mehdi]] Arab propaganda on college.
<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j_IvAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 6, 1968].
{{quotebox-float|SIRHAN REPORTED ACTIVE IN PRO-ARAB COLLEGE ORGANIZATION.
Accused Assailant, Family Came to U.S. in 1957 From Jordan Village.
JERUSALEM, June 5 (AP) — Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, identified in California as a man of Jordanian origin who shot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, came from a small village of terraced Palestine near Jerusalem, Arab sources said tonight.
“Records in Washington showed that Sirhan, with his father, mother, a number of brothers and a sister, arrived in New York Jan. 12, 1957—not long after one of the three Israeli-Arab wars began. Sirhan then was 12.
Arab sources said other members of the Sirhan family, known in Jerusalem as Sarhan—pronounced Sakhan—still live at Silwan on the outskirts of Old Jerusalem in the West Bank sector seized by Israel from Jordan last June.
There are about 250 persons named Sirhan in the village, all members of branches of the same family, the sources said.
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington showed that Sirhan was born March 19, 1944.
At that time, the area was ruled by Britain under the League of Nations Palestine mandate.
With Britain’s blessing, Jordan became an independent kingdom in 1946.
There was no known police record of Sirhan in the Jerusalem area.
Authorities in Los Angeles said Sirhan had been living with a brother, Munir “Joe” Sirhan of Pasadena, a department store employe. They also mentioned another brother, Adel, as having participated in the process of identification.
None of the Sirhan family in America was naturalized, the immigration department in Washington said.
The secretary-general of the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations, Dr. Mohammed T. Mehdi, said in New York that Sirhan was a student at Pasadena State College and was active in the Organization of Arab Students at the college.
Mehdi is known in the New York area as a propagandist for Arab causes.
Mehdi said Sirhan “may have been inflamed” by a statement made last Saturday night during the broadcast McCarthy-Kennedy debate in California. Kennedy said at one point, “I think we have a commitment to Israel, for its own sake, that has to be kept.”..
Sirhan comes from a part of the world where the word “assassin” originated centuries ago. A secret order of Ismaili Moslems terrorized Christians and other enemies, while allegedly under the influence of hashish, at the time of the Crusades. They were called assassins from a corruption of the word hashish...}}</ref>
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]].
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]].