Sirhan Sirhan, the forever terrorist

It was a warm summer day in June 1968 when California Democrats went to the polls in the presidential primary and delivered a resounding victory to Senator Robert F. Kennedy over democratic rival and then vice president Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Senator Eugene J. McCarthy.

America was well on its way, moving toward the presidential conventions, to select the respective Republican and Democrat nominees who would face each other in November in the 1968 presidential election. The no nonsense senator from New York was in a close national nomination race with the vice president known as the...