7 January 1969: Trial of Palestinian immigrant for assassination of Robert Kennedy

The four month trial of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan for the assassination of Robert Kennedy began on this day in 1969. Sirhan, according to his parents was driven to kill Kennedy out of a desire for revenge following the American presidential candidate’s open support for Israel during the Six-Day War of June 1967. Having initially been sentenced to death, he later had this sentence controversially commuted to life imprisonment, provoking a great deal of anger from the American public... Read the full Assassination of Robert Kennedy Crime File