Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stabbed in California prison: reports

By Alex Dobuzinskis

 

FILE PHOTO: Sirhan Sirhan is shown in this handout photo taken February 9, 2016, and provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Sirhan, the assassin of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968, faces a California parole board for the 15th time on Wednesday. REUTERS/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/Handout via Reuters/Files

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee found guilty of shooting U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to death in 1968, was wounded in a stabbing at a California prison on Friday, according to media reports.

 

Celebrity website TMZ, citing unnamed sources, was first to report that Sirhan, 75, had been stabbed.

 

Replying to a request for confirmation that Sirhan was wounded, Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said an inmate had been stabbed at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.

 

The wounded inmate was taken to a hospital outside the prison and is listed in stable condition, Callison said in a statement, and a suspect has been identified in the assault.

 

In a follow-up email, Callison declined to identify the wounded inmate as Sirhan, citing department policy on not naming victims.

 

A jury in 1969 found Sirhan guilty of assassinating Kennedy the previous year by opening fire with a .22-caliber pistol into a small crowd surrounding the Democratic candidate in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

 

Kennedy, a U.S. senator from New York, was hit three times and died the next day. He was later buried at Arlington Cemetery, near his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

 

Sirhan has said he fired at Kennedy because he was enraged by his support for Israel.

 

He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was changed to life in prison after California banned the death penalty for a time.

 

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-08-31

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Why have they waited for so long?...

Yes, I too was surprised that after all this time in prison that he was never killed there. Would be no loss.

Maybe Trump will pardon him.

 

 

my parents were there. i was 14 years old at home watching on television.

 

the FBI came to our house to interview my father as a witness.

 

 

 

No great loss to humanity if he dies from the attack. Just sayin'

39 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

my parents were there. i was 14 years old at home watching on television.

 

the FBI came to our house to interview my father as a witness.

 

 

 

It's one of those moments that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. I was in a London underground station waiting for a train when I spotted the headline on an evening newspaper.

33 minutes ago, roquefort said:

It's one of those moments that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. I was in a London underground station waiting for a train when I spotted the headline on an evening newspaper.

i can remember JFK also. I was 8 years old.

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

i can remember JFK also. I was 8 years old.

I was watching on TV when it happened. A great irony is that Kennedy would have been president, not Noxin. Besides the China problem created by Kissinger/Nixon, the whole transformation of the Republican Party began with the Southern Strategy to bring what we see today, not to mention the rise of Trump. So the action by Sirhan, a Palestinian, finally means that chances for Palestinians to have a state are as a result practically dead!

Any chance of moving him to a Manhattan Jail ?  You know, where Epstein was watched over ?

I rember as well all of them I also rember not long after Vietnam and the division it caused amongst us kinda similar times now scans the killings of politicians 

Go to Arlington National Cemetery and you will see a magnificent display for JFK, including many of his most famous quotes. Off to the side is a simple marker. Upon inspection you see it is the final resting place of Robert Kennedy. It hits you like a brick.

 

3 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Any chance of moving him to a Manhattan Jail ?  You know, where Epstein was watched over ?

 

 Wow , i always thought prison was a safe haven .

  Was last time i was there , but that was in Great Britain , proud to be british ...

 

23 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i can remember JFK also. I was 8 years old.

Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK  The part that gets me  Jack Ruby shot Oswald and Ruby was dying of cancer at the time. Sounds a bit iffy to me

17 hours ago, Mac98 said:

Go to Arlington National Cemetery and you will see a magnificent display for JFK, including many of his most famous quotes. Off to the side is a simple marker. Upon inspection you see it is the final resting place of Robert Kennedy. It hits you like a brick.

 

my Dad is buried there.

The American mob cleaning things up?

Epstein is out of the way.

Sirhan botched job?

"El Chapo" tried to "spill the beans" also.

Is he next?

Maybe the "Global Moderators" know. ????