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...learned no phoographers were there to record the scene. Some psychiatrists say the assassin homes in on his target, not just to seize some of the victim's fame but to achieve, at long last, a permanent identity. "They can gas me, but I am famous," said Sirhan Sirhan. "I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life...
...benefited. The new writings collected in Music for Chameleons get a maximum effect from a minimum number of words. Throughout these 14 pieces, the reader learns just how busy and varied Capote's life is. His range of acquaintances is not only vast but spooky. "I know Sirhan, and I knew Robert Kennedy, I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy," he says, explaining that he met Oswald in Moscow just after he defected...
...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...