On June 5, 1968, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy gave a speech to his supporters at the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, after which he spoke with a crowd of people surrounding him. One of those people was a Palestinian Christian militant by the name of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, and he wasn’t there for an autograph. When he had his chance, Sirhan surged forward to begin firing a .22 caliber revolver at Kennedy, hitting the senator once in the head and twice in the back, as well as hitting five other bystanders before being wrestled to the ground and subdued by people in the crowd. Kennedy would later die of his wounds 26 hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital and Sirhan Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. At the time it was thought that this was a simple political assassination carried out by a lone fanatic and fueled by U.S. involvement in the Arab–Israeli conflict in the Middle East, but over the years it has acquired many varied conspiracy theories, and one of these is the idea that Sirhan Sirhan was a mind-controlled, Manchurian Candidate-style pawn in a complex assassination plot.