Jerry: David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck…
Alice: What about them?
Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman…
Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names.
Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn’t die. If Reagan had died, I’m pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley’s middle name was.
Does anyone happen to know if the media have always referred to Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammed by all three names?
Jerry: I just thought of another one: James Earl Ray, the guy who got Luther King. Then of course, there’s Sirhan Sirhan. I still haven’t figured that one out. Maybe it’s Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan, I don’t know.
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Sirhan Cubed.
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Posted 23 Jun 2006 at 1:41 pm ¶Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.
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Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 10:34 am ¶I confess I didn’t remember that. I almost remembered it. I looked it up here.
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Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 10:36 am ¶I had a class once with a professor who had Sirhan Sirhan as a student.
He told me that the FBI questioned him after the Kennedy thing and that the only thing he could recall about the guy was that his name wasn’t really Sirhan Sirhan but was only Sirhan.
He remarked to him that that was an interesting name and Sirhan Sirhan replied that in his application (either into the school or the US…I can’t remember), it asked for a first name and last name. Since he only had one name, he put Sirhan in both fields.
So, maybe it’s lone assassins only have one name or 3 names.
I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned him yet but there’s also Mehmet Ali Ağca who attempted to assassinate JPII.
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