Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy . Shortly after midnight on June 5 , 1968 , after defeating Senator Eugene McCarthy in the California and South Dakota presidential primaries , he was mortally wounded by Sirhan Sirhan , a 24-year-old enraged Palestinian , and died the following day . Sirhan Sirhan [ sɜːrˈhɑːn_sɜːrˈhɑːn ] ( born سرحان بشارة سرحان , Sirḥān Bishāra Sirḥān ; on March 19 , 1944 ) is a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy .