Sirhan Sirhan

Five other people at the party were also shot but all five recovered: Paul Schrade an official with the United Automobile Workers union; William Weisel an ABC TV unit manager; Ira Goldstein a reporter with the Continental News Service; Elizabeth Evans a friend of Pierre Salinger one of Kennedy's campaign aides; and Irwin Stroll a teenaged Kennedy volunteer. Jerry Cohen who authored the article stated:

When the Jordanian nationalist Sirhan Bishara Sirhan allegedly shot Kennedy ostensibly because of the senator's advocacy of U. Sirhan was convicted on April 17 1969 and was sentenced six days later to death in the gas chamber.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان‎ Sirḥān Bishārah Sirḥān; born March 19 1944) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. " 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. Kennedy.