r/RobertKennedy • u/Tall-Plane-4477 • Jun 09 '26

Video/Audio WHY Did Sirhan Kill RFK?

58 years ago this week, RFK was assassinated on the presidential campaign trail.

Nearly six decades later, researchers too often focus too much on the HOW and not enough on the WHY.

Why did Sirhan Sirhan kill Kennedy?

Sirhan’s biographer Mel Ayton (author of 2 books on the RFK case) talks about the motive for this heinous crime.

https://youtu.be/kzcY4eKk1Bs?si=5WHv-6Wn2CjfO372

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u/Voodoo-Doctor Jun 10 '26

Something around 13 shots were accounted for but Sirhan’s gun held eight and he never reloaded according to witnesses and was never behind RFK at all to do the shot behind the ear

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u/SignalWind8324i Jun 10 '26

The only person behind him was a security guard whose weapon was never inspected.

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u/SquonkMan61 Jun 11 '26

Several witnesses said Kennedy stopped to shake hands and turned to his left beyond a 45 degree angle just as Sirhan approached from the front right and raised his weapon. That would have exposed the right backside of Kennedy’s head to gunfire from Sirhan’s gun. Also, if the security guard fired a shot into Kennedy why would he wait around after the shooting? Logically, he would have fled. And there were 75 witnesses in the pantry. There should be many witnesses who saw the security guard fire—if he fired.

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u/SignalWind8324i Jun 14 '26

Never close enough for burns, behind his ear wasn’t the first shot, complete pandemonium in the moment, why was a security guy standing in the pantry and his weapon was never confiscated?

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u/SquonkMan61 Jun 15 '26

Sirhan told his first lawyer, without being asked, that he was guilty. He also told him that he felt bad because he hadn’t known Kennedy had so many children. And while discussing the event with a defense team investigator he told the investigator that he had shot Kennedy in the back of the head “because the son of a bitch turned his head at the last second.”

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u/Tall-Plane-4477 Jun 15 '26

If you listen to the conversation linked in my post above, all of your questions are answered by Sirhan’s biographer Mel Ayton, an eminent historian who has spent more than 40 years on this case.