Category Archives: Charlie Kirk

1. Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/s??r?h??n/;^[2]Arabic: ????? ????? ????? Sir??n Biš?ra Sir??n; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968. Kennedy died the next day at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles. On April 17, 1969, Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges, and subsequently sentenced to death by gas chamber. In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of Furman v. Georgia. The circumstances surrounding the attack, which took place five years after President Kennedy’s assassination, have led to numerous conspiracy theories.

In 1989, Sirhan told British journalist David Frost: “My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 fighter jets to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians.”^[3] Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the United States stemming from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (Sirhan carried out the attack on the first anniversary of the 1967 Arab–Israeli War), though it occurred at a time when the American public was overwhelmingly focused on the Vietnam War.^[4]

[…] Motives

Sirhan’s diary

A motive cited for Sirhan’s actions is the Middle East conflict.^[40] After his arrest, Sirhan said, “I can explain it. I did it for my country”.^[40] Sirhan believed that he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy’s support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War,^[41] which had begun exactly one year before the date of the assassination. During a search of Sirhan’s apartment after his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing a diary entry that demonstrated that his anger had gradually fixated on Kennedy, who had promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel if elected president.^{[citation needed]} Sirhan’s journal entry of May 18, 1968, read: “My determination to eliminate R.F.K. is becoming the more and more [sic] of an unshakable obsession … Kennedy must die before June 5th”.^[40] They found other notebooks and diary entries expressing his growing rage at Kennedy; his journals also contained many aphorisms that were thought to be his version of “free writing“. He wrote in support of communism: “Long live Communism … I firmly support the communist cause and its people … American capitalism will fall and give way to the worker’s dictatorship”.^[42]

2. Carlos the Jackal

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ramírez and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Spanish: [i?lit?ra?mi?es?sant?es]; born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal (Spanish: Carlos el Chacal) or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convict who conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings from 1973 to 1985. A committed Marxist–Leninist, he was one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era,^[1][2][3] protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB.^[4] After several bungled bombings, Carlos led the 1975 raid on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, during which three people were killed. He and five others demanded a plane and flew with a number of hostages to Libya.

[…] In 2001, after converting to Islam,^[48] Carlos married his lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, in a Muslim ceremony, although he was still married to his second wife.^[49]

3. Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at age 12 for truancy, during which he was assessed by a psychiatrist as “emotionally disturbed” due to a lack of normal family life. He attended 12 schools in his youth, quitting repeatedly, and at age 17 he joined the Marines, where he was court-martialed twice and jailed. In 1959, he was discharged from active duty into the Marine Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union. He lived in Minsk, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter. In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, Texas, where their second daughter was born.

Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy, Oswald murdered Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street. He then slipped into a movie theater, where he was arrested for Tippit’s murder. Oswald was charged with the assassination of Kennedy, but he denied responsibility for the killing, claiming that he was a “patsy” (a fall guy). Two days later, Oswald himself was murdered by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.

[…] Though Oswald had trouble spelling in his youth^[11] and may have had a “reading-spelling disability“,^[23] he read voraciously. By age 15, he considered himself a socialist. According to his diary, “I was looking for a key to my environment, and then I discovered socialist literature. I had to dig for my books in the back dusty shelves of libraries.” At 16, he wrote to the Socialist Party of America for information on their Young People’s Socialist League, saying he had been studying socialist principles for “well over fifteen months”.^[24]

[…] Almost immediately after arriving, Oswald informed his Intourist guide of his desire to become a Soviet citizen. When asked why by the various Soviet officials he encountered — all of whom, by Oswald’s account, found his wish incomprehensible — he said that he was a communist, and gave what he described in his diary as “vauge [sic] answers about ‘Great Soviet Union'”.^[53] On October 21, the day his visa was due to expire, he was told that his citizenship application had been refused, and that he had to leave the Soviet Union that evening. Distraught, Oswald inflicted a minor but bloody wound to his left wrist in his hotel room bathtub soon before his Intourist guide was due to arrive to escort him from the country, according to his diary because he wished to kill himself in a way that would shock her.^[53] Delaying Oswald’s departure because of his self-inflicted injury, the Soviets kept him in a Moscow hospital under psychiatric observation for a week, until October 28, 1959.^[55]

Anyone want to take a bet that the assassin of Charlie Kirk would fit right in on this list? Instead of being a Palestinian communist, or a Muslim-communist, perhaps he was a tranny communist. But I have a pretty good idea which adjective will fit.