Word: sirhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends, the changes that were already occurring became especially obvious after Robert Kennedy's assassination. He had been a J.F.K. supporter in 1960 and was in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel with his friend Bobby the night he was shot. When Sirhan Sirhan was grabbed in a hotel kitchen, Unruh shouted: "Don't kill him! If the system works at all, we're going to try this...
...succession of sensational trials lately has made the work of the cortroom artists more evident than ever. For magazines, newspapers and television, they have limned the likenesses of Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray. In recent weeks, they have been busy covering the Chicago Seven trial, the Black Panther conspiracy hearing in New York and the Lieut. William Calley hearings in Georgia...
...Lawyers for Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin, negotiated a contract with Writer Robert Kaiser. To help Kaiser cover the court proceeding, they agreed to assign him to the case as a "special investigator." This allowed him not only to interview Sirhan in his cell, but also to examine evidence before the trial and talk with court officers who were barred from discussing the case with other reporters. Given such access, Kaiser has produced a vividly detailed book-and Sirhan's 50% share of the royalties may well pay his legal costs...