I was 13 years old when Senator
Robert F. Kennedy was killed in June of 1968. I had a paper route, 50 houses in
all, and the day after he was killed, June 9; there was a photo of the Senator on
the front page of our local paper, the Ansonia Evening Sentential.
It was a horrible photo.
He was lying on a floor; his
arms spread out wide, a Filipino waiter holding up the senator head. I had to
look at the photo fifty times that day and all these decades later, I can still
see it.
Senator Kennedy’s killer,
Sirhan Sirhan said "My only
connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his
deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to
the Palestinians”
M.T.
Mehdi, then secretary-general of the Action Committee on American-Arab
Relations, believed that Sirhan had acted in justifiable self-defense, stating:
"Sirhan was defending himself against those 50 Phantom jets Kennedy was
sending to Israel."
(Sirhan shot five other people that night
aside from Kennedy. Not one of them had sent a bomber to Israel)
The
murder made Robert Kennedy one of the early victims of the Muslim
extremist war on America that continues today. As for Sirhan, he has spent the
last forty-six years in prison, almost always in solitary confinement for his
own safety. He has been denied parole repeatedly
on the grounds that Sirhan still does not understand the
full ramifications of his crime.
