The Making of an Assassin: Why Sirhan Sirhan Murdered Robert Kennedy

A gripping, evidence—based portrait of Robert F. Kennedy’s killer, tracing Sirhan Sirhan’s radicalization from a troubled immigrant youth to a politically motivated assassin.

It was in the early hours of 5 June 1968 that the US presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot three times by a Palestinian gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. Bobby, the younger brother of John F. Kennedy, who was himself murdered some five years earlier, succumbed to his wounds twenty—six hours later.

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