Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, might have attempted to take out his hermit Ted, too.A associate invalid at the sovereign jail in Soledad, Calif., told the FBI that Sirhan offering him "a million dollars and a car" to kill Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1977, according to a inform in Kennedys newly-released FBI record (read PDF of report).The Mexican-American inmate, whose name is redacted, told agents he didnt know Ted Kennedy was a senator, but famous that he was the hermit of slain President John Kennedy and New York Sen. Bobby Kennedy.The inmate, who was in the cell subsequent to Sirhans for eighteen months and befriended the assassin, pronounced Sirhan told him to strike his mom for some-more sum if he motionless to take on the hit."He suggested he declined the contract," the inform states.The invalid pronounced he didnt think Sirhan done the suggest to any one else at the prison.The FBI alerted Kennedys office, the Secret Service, the Boston Police Department and the troops arch in Barnstable, Mass, nearby the Kennedy devalue on Cape Cod.The earnest of the threat, and the trustworthiness of the invalid informant, were never determined.Sirhan, a mentally lunatic Palestinian Christian, shot Bobby Kennedy the night he won the California first - sealing the Democratic assignment - since the senator had betrothed troops await for Israel if inaugurated President.Sirhan is portion hold up in jail in California.
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