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My heart is still broken over the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy 50 years ago today.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, I continue to hold members of his family in my heart as they continue to grieve over his death while running for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

But … I want to end this discussion that Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone in the Los Angeles hotel kitchen that night. I want to end the myth that there was another shooter in the room.<\/p>\n

As you might already know from the blog, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I have dismissed the notion that someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald murdered Bobby Kennedy’s brother, the president, in Dallas on the bright, sunny November day in 1963.<\/p>\n

None other than Robert Kennedy Jr., the third-eldest of Bobby and Ethel’s 11 children, believes Sirhan did not kill his father. I do not intend here to disrespect<\/em> RFK Jr.’s belief in a second gunman, or that someone else fired those shots.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t there when Bobby was mortally wounded; however, neither was his son.<\/p>\n

I do know that Sirhan yelled, “Kennedy, you son of a bi***!” before firing a revolver into the back of the senator’s head. Sirhan, an immigrant from Jordan, hated Kennedy’s strong pro-Israel stance as attorney general and then as a U.S. senator. I also know that members of Kennedy’s entourage grappled immediately<\/em> with Sirhan after he fired the shots. They wrenched the pistol from his hand; the bullets were spent.<\/p>\n

Sirhan was effectively caught in the act<\/em> of changing the course of U.S. political history.<\/p>\n

He fired the shots that killed Robert Kennedy. He was sentenced initially to death; but then the Supreme Court struck down capital punishment, meaning that Sirhan would serve a life sentence in a California prison.<\/p>\n

He did the crime. He will die behind bars. I continue to mourn the victim of his heinous act of violence.<\/p>\n

Please, let us stop promulgating the myth<\/em> that Sirhan didn’t do it.<\/p>\n\n

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