Sirhan Sirhan: The First Lone Wolf

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The War on Terror Spectator

Sirhan Sirhan: The First Lone Wolf

The man who murdered Robert Kennedy 47 years ago was the first — but not the last.

 

By Jeffrey Lord – 6.4.15

 

He was America’s original lone wolf.

 

It is 1989. Twenty-one years after the assassination of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the night in 1968 that he won the California Democratic primary, sending him into a real battle for the party’s presidential nomination.

 

Sitting across from the famous British television interviewer David Frost, Bobby Kennedy’s assassin — America’s first “lone wolf” inspired by hatred of Israel — made it plain why he had done what he had done. Sirhan Sirhan said this to Frost, as reported by the New York Times:

 

In the interview, Mr. Sirhan, who is a Jordanian immigrant, said that when Mr. Kennedy gave a speech in support of sending United States fighter jets to Israel, ''that seemed as though it were a betrayal.''