Maybe.. Sirhan Sirhan doesn't look to my eyes as an Iranian name but whatever... To name him as an Iranian is to go against everything the country's government (the Shah et al) and the people (I rely on multiple accounts) stood for at the time.
It is my understanding from reading about it years ago he was an Iranian but I don’t believe it reflected on the Iranian government.
Actually, Sirhan is a Palestinian, still taking up valuable space in a California jail cell. His date with the executioner was commuted to life with the possibility of parole.
Hey, even the great ones like Sowell make an error once in awhile.
At about 12:15 am on June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy, who was leaving a campaign rally, was mortally wounded and died the next day. (Kennedy’s death came just two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King by James Earl Ray.) Sirhan was an Arab who had emigrated to the United States in the 1950s and was reportedly disturbed by Kennedy’s pro-Israel positions. After a 1969 trial lasting nearly four months, Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death. That sentence was commuted to life in prison and Sirhan has been in prison in California ever since; his repeated applications for parole have been denied.
http://www.who2.com/sirhansirhan.html
I think Thomas Sowell needs to make a correction.
I forgive him
;~)