Word: sirhan
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...many possibilities were cut short by the gun of Sirhan Sirhan on the night of California's primary. Schlesinger says that in the '70s none of America's politicians--a terms he rarely uses to describe Bobby--are anything like Bobby was. None have the same commitment, the same commitment, the same concern for the "desolate and disenfranchised." Except, of course, Teddy. It is in the '80s Schlesinger predicts, that Bobby's ideas will be remembered and revived, as the country renews its concern for the havenots. It is in the '80s, he says, that Robert Kennedy and His Times...
...stroke; in Hollywood, Calif. Wirin fought for workers during the '30s, helped restore the rights and property of Japanese Americans following World War II, and battled the death penalty as unconstitutional. In the A.C.L.U.'s libertarian tradition, he also counseled fascists, Nazis, religious fanatics, and criminals, including Sirhan Sirhan. Said Wirin: "The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member of the community...
...only one of the men he sentenced to die ever went to the gas chamber: Convict-Author Caryl Chessman, whom Walker ordered executed in 1960 for a robbery and rape committed in 1948. The best-known survivor of a Walker death sentence is Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan...
Conspiracy theories seem to abound everywhere at the moment, film being no exception. One of the better of the Oswald-Nixon-Sirhan Sirhan-Hunt-Walt Disney-Did-It genre, Three Days of the Condor, now showing at the Circle Theater in Brookline, makes the trip over the Charles to Cleveland Circle worthwhile. Robert Redford battles the mailman, Faye Dunaway, paranoid and the CIA in a taut and suspenseful film. By the end, it's tough to figure out whom to trust, except the Sundance...
When added to evidence previously established, the panel's findings did make it seem much more certain that Sirhan's gun had done the damage...