Paul Schrade on second gunman in RFK shooting

[Tom Bowden]

Sirhan was born March 1944 so he was four years when the 1948 war occurred. As a result of the war, his father lost his job. His family then migrated to Pasadena in 1957. The father and mother were never close and apparently the father was very chauvinistic toward women and a domineering father. His father moved to New York to find a job and would visit them occasionally. The Father would later move to Jordan, where he built a house and hoped his family would return there. When they did not he moved to Teibeh, Israel, where he lived at the time of the assassination. So Sirhan spent almost as much time in the United States as in the Arab world. Even tho he was only four, he had graphic memories of the war. He apparently was a loner and was fascinated by various religions. So to label him as an Arab terrorist would seem to be incorrect.