Early Life
Sirhan is a Palestinian Christian with Jordanian citizenship born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old, his family emigrated, moving briefly to New York and then to California. He attended Eliot Junior High School (now known as Charles W. Eliot Middle School) in Altadena, California, John Muir High School and Pasadena City College. Sirhan's father, Bishara, was characterized as a stern man who often beat his sons harshly. Shortly after the family's move to California, Bishara returned alone to the Middle East. Sirhan has retained his Jordanian citizenship and has not become a U.S. citizen.
As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also allegedly dabbled in the occult. He was employed as a stable boy in 1965 at the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California.
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