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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>California is the birthplace of many iconic dishes and drinks, from cioppino to mai tais to the fortune cookie. So \u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> decided to look into the origin stories of some of those classics with a new series: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/golden-state-plate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden State Plate\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]os Angeles is a city of constant change, but there are a few sacred, iconic things in this town that have remained the same for decades. And one, in particular, that you can eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get the same dish that your grandfather and your great-grandfather and your ancestors had,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamag.com/author/chris-nichols/\">Chris Nichols\u003c/a>. He’s been writing about L.A. culture for over 20 years. “At Philippe’s, you can get that sandwich and it’s just beautiful and simple and authentic and real and great!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.philippes.com/\">Philippe’s\u003c/a> is just down from Union Station on the southern edge of Chinatown. It’s a blue-collar area bordered by train tracks, the mighty Terminal Annex post office building and small shops in humble brick-and-mortar structures that date back to the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693777\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Binder, fourth generation managing partner of Philippe's restaurant in Los Angeles, stirs 50 gallons of simmering meat that will soon become French dip sandwiches.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32733_ANDREW-BINDER-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Binder, fourth generation managing partner of Philippe’s restaurant in Los Angeles, stirs 50 gallons of simmering meat that will soon become French dip sandwiches. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the same people who are buying that sandwich today are the types of people who would have bought it a century ago,” says Nichols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get city employees and workers and you see garbage men and you see people in suits. People from every walk of life are coming in and out of that place enjoying the history and authenticity and the realness of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stepping inside this cavernous, former machine shop feels like an older Los Angeles. There’s a bank of wooden phone booths, glowing neon clocks on the walls, sawdust covering the floors and long communal tables where customers perch on stools, often eating next to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no music in the place, just the easy ebb and flow of conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘A lot of the same people who are buying that sandwich today are the types of people who would have bought it a century ago.’\u003ccite>Chris Nichols, Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are no waiters either. You line up at the deli counter where a row of women in classic waitress uniforms, known as carvers, wait to take and make your order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you walk in and get a French dip today, it’ll be one of the 19,000 sandwiches served up this week. They’ve been doing this for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were open for 10 years until the French dip was actually created, and it was an accident,” says Andrew Binder. He’s a fourth generation managing partner who literally grew up in the restaurant. The carvers were his babysitters. In 1927, his great-grandfather bought the place from Hypolite Philippe Mathieu, who opened it in 1908.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Philippe was carving a sandwich and the French roll fell into the pan drippings of some meats that were being roasted,” continues Binder. “The customer was in a hurry. We used to think it was a policeman, but we were actually told by a relative of Philippe that it was a fireman. That customer came back the next day with friends requesting the sandwich being dipped, so that really is the birth of the French dip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gloria Camacho has been making French dip sandwiches at Philippe's for 25 years. That's a lot of sandwiches.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Camacho has been making French dip sandwiches at Philippe’s for 25 years. That’s a lot of sandwiches. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Camacho has been a handmaiden to the French dip for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a carver,” she says of her front-line duties. “We slice the bread, we slice the lamb, the pickle.” Camacho is part of am all-female staff of carvers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for customers who aren’t French dip veterans, Camacho reveals the different ways to dip your beef, lamb, pork, ham, turkey or pastrami sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They ask us, what does it mean, dip? It just means how much moisture you want on your roll,” she says. “You can get dry, single, double, wet, meat on the side, the roll on the side, cut in half, cut in thirds, for here or to go, so there’s a couple of options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of the parking lot of Philippe's in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1200x861.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1180x847.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vintage photo of the parking lot of Philippe’s in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Philippe's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lines are growing as breakfast transitions into lunch. Eric Woods is in the queue, gazing at the cream pie, cheesecake, potato salad, pickled pigs’ feet and other delights under the deli counter glass as he inches slowly toward his carver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a wait he’s used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been coming since I been like 10 years old,” says Woods. “I’m 53 now. I just like the atmosphere. Family atmosphere. With no headache.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11693774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"French dip fan Eric Woods and his wife Sonja. He's been coming to Philippe's since he was a toddler.\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">French dip fan Eric Woods and his wife Sonja. He’s been coming to Philippe’s since he was a toddler. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tradition of Philippe’s French dip is deep and vast, but they’re not the only place in town claiming the sacred birthright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://213hospitality.com/coles/\">Cole’s\u003c/a>, also open since 1908, maintains the sandwich had its first au jus baptism in their kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my own theory as to why Philippe’s might be the originator as opposed to Cole’s,” offer Chris Nichols. “It’s simply that Hypolite Philippe Mathieu was born in France, and Harry Cole was a German, so maybe that’s why it’s a French dip because it came from a Frenchman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not exactly a Beatles vs. Stones rivalry, and fans of both sandwiches can always agree on at least one thing: the sturdy, humble French dip is a proud creation of the City of Angels.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get city employees and workers and you see garbage men and you see people in suits. People from every walk of life are coming in and out of that place enjoying the history and authenticity and the realness of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stepping inside this cavernous, former machine shop feels like an older Los Angeles. There’s a bank of wooden phone booths, glowing neon clocks on the walls, sawdust covering the floors and long communal tables where customers perch on stools, often eating next to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no music in the place, just the easy ebb and flow of conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘A lot of the same people who are buying that sandwich today are the types of people who would have bought it a century ago.’\u003ccite>Chris Nichols, Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are no waiters either. You line up at the deli counter where a row of women in classic waitress uniforms, known as carvers, wait to take and make your order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you walk in and get a French dip today, it’ll be one of the 19,000 sandwiches served up this week. They’ve been doing this for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were open for 10 years until the French dip was actually created, and it was an accident,” says Andrew Binder. He’s a fourth generation managing partner who literally grew up in the restaurant. The carvers were his babysitters. In 1927, his great-grandfather bought the place from Hypolite Philippe Mathieu, who opened it in 1908.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Philippe was carving a sandwich and the French roll fell into the pan drippings of some meats that were being roasted,” continues Binder. “The customer was in a hurry. We used to think it was a policeman, but we were actually told by a relative of Philippe that it was a fireman. That customer came back the next day with friends requesting the sandwich being dipped, so that really is the birth of the French dip.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gloria Camacho has been making French dip sandwiches at Philippe's for 25 years. That's a lot of sandwiches.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32736_gloria-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Camacho has been making French dip sandwiches at Philippe’s for 25 years. That’s a lot of sandwiches. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Camacho has been a handmaiden to the French dip for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a carver,” she says of her front-line duties. “We slice the bread, we slice the lamb, the pickle.” Camacho is part of am all-female staff of carvers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for customers who aren’t French dip veterans, Camacho reveals the different ways to dip your beef, lamb, pork, ham, turkey or pastrami sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They ask us, what does it mean, dip? It just means how much moisture you want on your roll,” she says. “You can get dry, single, double, wet, meat on the side, the roll on the side, cut in half, cut in thirds, for here or to go, so there’s a couple of options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-800x574.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of the parking lot of Philippe's in Los Angeles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1200x861.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-1180x847.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/PhilippesParking-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A vintage photo of the parking lot of Philippe’s in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Philippe's)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lines are growing as breakfast transitions into lunch. Eric Woods is in the queue, gazing at the cream pie, cheesecake, potato salad, pickled pigs’ feet and other delights under the deli counter glass as he inches slowly toward his carver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a wait he’s used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been coming since I been like 10 years old,” says Woods. “I’m 53 now. I just like the atmosphere. Family atmosphere. With no headache.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693774\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11693774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"French dip fan Eric Woods and his wife Sonja. He's been coming to Philippe's since he was a toddler.\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32735_eric-woods-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">French dip fan Eric Woods and his wife Sonja. He’s been coming to Philippe’s since he was a toddler. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tradition of Philippe’s French dip is deep and vast, but they’re not the only place in town claiming the sacred birthright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://213hospitality.com/coles/\">Cole’s\u003c/a>, also open since 1908, maintains the sandwich had its first au jus baptism in their kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my own theory as to why Philippe’s might be the originator as opposed to Cole’s,” offer Chris Nichols. “It’s simply that Hypolite Philippe Mathieu was born in France, and Harry Cole was a German, so maybe that’s why it’s a French dip because it came from a Frenchman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not exactly a Beatles vs. Stones rivalry, and fans of both sandwiches can always agree on at least one thing: the sturdy, humble French dip is a proud creation of the City of Angels.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 200,000 people live in rented apartments in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Right now, their landlords can increase rent by however much they want -- but that could soon change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors passed 4-1 a motion that moves the county toward rent stabilization. If ultimately enacted, the proposed policy would limit annual rent increases to 3 percent each year for residents who live in most of the apartments outside the boundaries of the county's 88 cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County staff now have two months to draft an ordinance that would stabilize rents for approximately 57,000 rental units, while the supervisors develop a more comprehensive tenant protection policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who authored \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/126409.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the motion\u003c/a> the board approved Tuesday, said rent stabilization is a tool county government can use to reduce the number of people who fall into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689739/oakland-wants-to-tax-vacant-properties-to-help-ease-homelessness\">Oakland Wants to Tax Vacant Properties to Help Ease Homelessness\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689739/oakland-wants-to-tax-vacant-properties-to-help-ease-homelessness\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Photo-1-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Many people say, 'Oh, it's people with mental health issues.' But you can see in all of the literature that those with mental health issues are about a third of the people who are homeless,\" said Kuehl to LAist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other two-thirds are primarily homeless because of economic issues. In Los Angeles County, that has a great deal to do with how the rents have increased and increased and increased.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuehl pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/highlights-rent-homelessness-16131/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study released last year by Zillow\u003c/a> that found a 5 percent increase in countywide rent correlates to a 3 percent increase in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, only a few cities in L.A. County -- Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica -- have rent stabilization (RSO) or tenant protection ordinances on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laist.com/2018/09/11/la_county_rent_stabilization_control_housing.php?_ga=2.174683810.1233916479.1536605086-1338203424.1507589107\">Read the full story via LAist.\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A vast green space in one of the poshest neighborhoods in Los Angeles is slated to become a haven for homeless veterans. That’s a big change for the campus of the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, parts of the property were illegally rented to a variety of commercial enterprises having nothing to do with helping veterans. This month, two men involved in those deals will be sentenced to federal prison for bribery and fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 400 acres of the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center were donated in the 19th century to be a home for old and disabled soldiers. But the land hasn’t been used that way in decades. More recently it’s been home to parking lots for school buses and rental cars, a commercial laundry for hotels, a storage facility for TV shows, among other uses having nothing to do with veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when he became secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP18/20160302/104548/HHRG-114-AP18-Bio-McDonaldR-20160302.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert McDonald\u003c/a> examined all of those rental agreements. “The money didn’t add up,” he says. “There was some indication of payoffs, of bribery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “if we found monkey business, we turned it over to the FBI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There had been no public accounting of what the VA West Los Angeles took in from these rentals or where the money went. NPR obtained documents in 2012 that showed the rentals at the VA had brought in at least $28 million and maybe more than $40 million. At the same time, there was no action on plans to create housing on the campus for homeless vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald says the parking lot deals looked particularly fishy. “If there’s a sweetheart deal going on, who made that sweetheart deal and what are they getting out of it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/va-img_1600-a166c4b3a9f051509935a07919d17efae6e385cd-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Flanz is in charge of turning the VA West Los Angeles campus into a community for at least 1,200 chronically homeless veterans. She hopes this former soccer field will be turned into new housing for female veterans and their children.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687717\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan Flanz is in charge of turning the VA West Los Angeles campus into a community for at least 1,200 chronically homeless veterans. She hopes this former soccer field will be turned into new housing for female veterans and their children. \u003ccite>(Ina Jaffe/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A man named David Richard Scott got a lot out of those deals. He had the parking concession on the campus and lied about how much money he took in. As a result, the VA didn’t get what it was owed. According to court documents, Scott shortchanged the government more than $13 million. In May, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/parking-lot-operator-agrees-plead-guilty-scheme-pay-bribes-and-defraud-department\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to fraud, forfeited millions in cash, cars and real estate, and agreed to serve nearly six years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott got away with the scam because he was bribing another man named Ralph Tillman, who oversaw all the rental deals on the VA campus. Tillman has also \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> and faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to rebuild veterans’ trust in what we’re doing on this campus,” says Meghan Flanz, who is in charge of turning the VA West Los Angeles campus into a community for at least 1,200 chronically homeless veterans. \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The plan\u003c/a> was part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by homeless vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the history of conflict and corruption at VA West Los Angeles, Flanz moved from Washington, D.C., back to her native Southern California to take what she describes as her dream job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moral imperative,” she says. “There are veterans who need housing. We’ve got the space to house them. The property was deeded to us to house them. 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At the same time, there was no action on plans to create housing on the campus for homeless vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald says the parking lot deals looked particularly fishy. “If there’s a sweetheart deal going on, who made that sweetheart deal and what are they getting out of it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/va-img_1600-a166c4b3a9f051509935a07919d17efae6e385cd-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Flanz is in charge of turning the VA West Los Angeles campus into a community for at least 1,200 chronically homeless veterans. 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In May, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/parking-lot-operator-agrees-plead-guilty-scheme-pay-bribes-and-defraud-department\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to fraud, forfeited millions in cash, cars and real estate, and agreed to serve nearly six years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott got away with the scam because he was bribing another man named Ralph Tillman, who oversaw all the rental deals on the VA campus. Tillman has also \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> and faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to rebuild veterans’ trust in what we’re doing on this campus,” says Meghan Flanz, who is in charge of turning the VA West Los Angeles campus into a community for at least 1,200 chronically homeless veterans. \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The plan\u003c/a> was part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by homeless vets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the history of conflict and corruption at VA West Los Angeles, Flanz moved from Washington, D.C., back to her native Southern California to take what she describes as her dream job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moral imperative,” she says. “There are veterans who need housing. We’ve got the space to house them. The property was deeded to us to house them. 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"content": "\u003cp>L.A. Metro will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployment of the portable scanners, which project waves to do full-body screenings of passengers walking through a station without slowing them down, will happen in the coming months, said Alex Wiggins, who runs L.A. 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Additionally, he could not get his business license renewed because of his sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, life became so stressful for Sseguya that he decided to take a break and visit the U.S. It was there he learned that the Ugandan police issued a warrant for his arrest because he had failed to report to the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend… he’s the one who told me, ‘You know what? Don’t come back,’” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing for his life, Sseguya decided to seek political asylum in California. But four years after his arrival in Los Angeles, he is still wary of revealing too much to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even here in California, a state almost two times the size of Uganda, he has not escaped homophobia in the immigrant community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People they always want to know: ‘Why? Why? Why?’” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s none of their business. It’s your business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persecution is not the only reason Sseguya is guarded. Not only did he lose his family, his partner, and his job, but here in Los Angeles, he is homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got here, I had some money,” he describes. “Then, the person I was living with kicked me out because I had no money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This explains why our interviews took place inside his friend’s battered old minivan. It took him a while to admit it, but this is where he lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To survive, Sseguya wakes up at the break of dawn every day, collects scrap, and backs up the van to the recycling bins at a swap meet in Van Nuys. He manages to scrape together around $300 each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the circumstances, he does not complain. Instead, he is grateful to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to live my life to the fullest, the way I wanted to be,” he said. “I chose what was best for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Sseguya now sets his sights on becoming a defense attorney to fight for people’s rights, he has a long journey ahead. First, he has to secure his political asylum by proving what happened to him in Uganda. In the meantime, he has to survive financially and try to get off the streets, in the hopes that one day he will be able to live openly as a gay man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, I have hope,” he said. “As long as I’m still alive, I have hope that one day I can make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only then can he make his California dream a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced in collaboration with an advanced reporting class at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. 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For a person that’s oppressed, a religious figure standing with them in solidarity — that means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Guillermo Torres, an organizer with Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, suggests ways that pastors can help an immigrant community facing pressure under the Trump administration.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-960x699.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres-520x379.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Torres.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guillermo Torres, an organizer with Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, suggests ways that pastors can help an immigrant community facing pressure under the Trump administration. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group attending the workshop was made up of early-career clergy who are part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pepperdine.edu/spiritual-life/communitas/\">Communitas Pastoral Leadership Program\u003c/a> at Pepperdine University as well as some of their spouses. While they were receptive to Torres’ message, some wondered if their congregations are ready to tackle immigration issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isis Pickens, a youth minister at the predominantly African-American Zion Hill Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, said other issues can take priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it can feel like the immigration conversation is outside our community because we are so inundated with other economic issues,” Pickens said. “But it is something we need to engage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickens said the young people in her church, those 18 and under, are particularly interested in issues affecting people outside the immediate community. She planned to invite some to the next training that CLUE is leading on how to help immigrant detainees on July 19 at Temple Israel in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1016778379490496513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres acknowledged that religious people are divided over the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Top evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham have lamented the family separations brought on by federal immigration policy, but have sidestepped criticism of the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the workshop of L.A.-area clergy, there were dismayed sighs and shaking heads whenever Torres brought up the issue of migrant children separated from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration is not an issue that Jenny Chrien has to personally contend with as pastor of a mostly white congregation at the Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Simi Valley. Nor is it an issue that Simi Valley officials are happy about, with the council coming out against California’s sanctuary state law that limits cooperation by local police with federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Chrien was trying to nail down ways to help her congregation identify with the uncertainty and fear many immigrants face under the Trump administration’s strict enforcement policies. Perhaps, she said, she would bring in a participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to share his or her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DACA participants, brought to the U.S. without authorization as children, have been allowed to temporarily live and work legally in the U.S., but that permission will expire unless Congress acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it can build compassion for something that might seem like it’s the ‘other,’ ” Chrien said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres advised the room that it’s timely to introduce immigration issues to congregations, given that so many in the country have been following the family separations, and the slow process to reunite children with parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are more open to hearing these stories than ever before,” Torres said. “Their hearts are open.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. Even those lucky enough to be able to afford a home often do so at the expense of some of the quintessential perks of life in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downsizing of the California Dream is readily apparent for Jenny Gov. In 2015, she and her boyfriend bought a home in Lakewood, a bedroom community near Long Beach that was once a classic example of the midcentury suburb and all that it offered — including easy access to good jobs, tight-knit community, the beach, the mountains and nearby Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov and her boyfriend moved here seeking many of the same things tens of thousands of buyers before them sought in Lakewood, only today they’re paying a higher price and getting less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time Gov stays within a 10-minute radius of her house, if she even gets that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to drive as little as possible,” she said, pointing out the Target five minutes from home that constitutes her usual night out on the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica so during her off hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica, so during her off-hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \u003ccite>(Meghan McCarty/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a big change from her early life growing up in Los Angeles, when she’d go out to explore music and art, check out hip coffee shops or seek out a meal in one of the many ethnic enclaves of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now her world is much smaller. She’s taken to meal prepping to avoid unnecessary trips to the grocery store, she does workout videos instead of going to the gym and she’s finally giving up the family dentist she’s had for more than 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I'm going to just find a dentist closer to me now,” she said. “It's not that far, but I think because I drive so much, I don't want to drive anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov, like an increasing number of Californians, has an extreme commute to her job. She works in communications at a nonprofit organization about 30 miles away, up the notorious 405 to Santa Monica. On good days it takes an hour and a half each way; on the worst days it’s 2½ hours each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like a part-time job,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov’s boyfriend has a similarly long commute into Los Angeles. They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. It’s a landscape that today appears completely unremarkable, but half a century ago embodied a powerful vision of the good life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zfGG1IbwpZg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise of Lakewood was enough of the good things of an everyday life -- a simple house, a yard, infrastructure of schools and churches and shopping centers,” said D.J. Waldie, an author and former city historian who wrote the book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” about life in Lakewood from the 1950s, when the subdivision exploded out of lima bean fields into a suburb of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 homes were built with assembly-line efficiency over a period of three years. They were bought up before they were even completed, mostly by working-class families able to take advantage of generous federal housing financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents commuted to nearby aerospace jobs or the shipyards of Long Beach. Their paychecks afforded them not only a home but -- with the new state-of-the-art freeways -- a world of things to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678781\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. 1952 Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-375x443.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-520x614.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California made it possible to really reach out to and touch an awful lot of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region -- travel to the beaches, to the mountains, to the desert,” said Waldie, whose own family took full advantage of their access to California’s natural splendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the midcentury lanes of Lakewood have scarcely changed since then, what success feels like in today’s California certainly has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a cruel reality of the current economic conditions that some of the ways in which an ordinary working-class suburb like Lakewood made life better aren't available,” said Waldie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those solid middle-class jobs nearby have shipped out. To afford to buy a home here, a lot more people are living like Jenny Gov -- spending more of their day in ever-worsening traffic, leaving little time to spend with family and neighbors, coaching Little League or exploring the wonders of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of places like Lakewood has been carved down into little pieces with Californians forced to pick between them: choose the house or choose the nearby job, but seldom both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-520x372.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, said the housing crisis has exacerbated the dilemma in recent years, as new housing construction has lagged in parts of the state where well-paid employment in the more knowledge-based economy has multiplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What California needs, he said, is more housing in areas closer to jobs, rather than the exurban sprawl that, he says, has compounded the problem. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With California’s problems of affordability and congestion, many of us are paying a higher price for an ever-shrinking sliver of California paradise. Even those lucky enough to be able to afford a home often do so at the expense of some of the quintessential perks of life in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downsizing of the California Dream is readily apparent for Jenny Gov. In 2015, she and her boyfriend bought a home in Lakewood, a bedroom community near Long Beach that was once a classic example of the midcentury suburb and all that it offered — including easy access to good jobs, tight-knit community, the beach, the mountains and nearby Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov and her boyfriend moved here seeking many of the same things tens of thousands of buyers before them sought in Lakewood, only today they’re paying a higher price and getting less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time Gov stays within a 10-minute radius of her house, if she even gets that far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to drive as little as possible,” she said, pointing out the Target five minutes from home that constitutes her usual night out on the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678779\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica so during her off hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood resident Jenny Gov drives three to four hours a day to her job in Santa Monica, so during her off-hours she sticks as close to home as possible. \u003ccite>(Meghan McCarty/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a big change from her early life growing up in Los Angeles, when she’d go out to explore music and art, check out hip coffee shops or seek out a meal in one of the many ethnic enclaves of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They wish they could live closer in, but homes closer to their jobs were way out of their price range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they settled in Lakewood, among the rows of modest little ranch-style houses, repeated in one of 20 or so iterations, interspersed with shopping centers, parks and schools. It’s a landscape that today appears completely unremarkable, but half a century ago embodied a powerful vision of the good life in California.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zfGG1IbwpZg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zfGG1IbwpZg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The promise of Lakewood was enough of the good things of an everyday life -- a simple house, a yard, infrastructure of schools and churches and shopping centers,” said D.J. Waldie, an author and former city historian who wrote the book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” about life in Lakewood from the 1950s, when the subdivision exploded out of lima bean fields into a suburb of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 17,000 homes were built with assembly-line efficiency over a period of three years. They were bought up before they were even completed, mostly by working-class families able to take advantage of generous federal housing financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents commuted to nearby aerospace jobs or the shipyards of Long Beach. Their paychecks afforded them not only a home but -- with the new state-of-the-art freeways -- a world of things to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678781\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. 1952 Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction.\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-800x945.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-240x283.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-375x443.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3-520x614.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood3.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood’s development never stopped, although the start of the Korean War slowed the financing of new construction. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“California made it possible to really reach out to and touch an awful lot of the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region -- travel to the beaches, to the mountains, to the desert,” said Waldie, whose own family took full advantage of their access to California’s natural splendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the midcentury lanes of Lakewood have scarcely changed since then, what success feels like in today’s California certainly has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a cruel reality of the current economic conditions that some of the ways in which an ordinary working-class suburb like Lakewood made life better aren't available,” said Waldie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those solid middle-class jobs nearby have shipped out. To afford to buy a home here, a lot more people are living like Jenny Gov -- spending more of their day in ever-worsening traffic, leaving little time to spend with family and neighbors, coaching Little League or exploring the wonders of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of places like Lakewood has been carved down into little pieces with Californians forced to pick between them: choose the house or choose the nearby job, but seldom both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11678782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5-520x372.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/lakewood5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Lakewood from the mid-1950s. \u003ccite>(City of Lakewood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCLA, said the housing crisis has exacerbated the dilemma in recent years, as new housing construction has lagged in parts of the state where well-paid employment in the more knowledge-based economy has multiplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What California needs, he said, is more housing in areas closer to jobs, rather than the exurban sprawl that, he says, has compounded the problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>The city of Los Angeles has been addressing the homelessness crisis by approving new shelters and turning old motels into temporary shelters. It appears to be having modest success. This year’s homeless count showed a 3 percent decline in the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To get the homeless off the streets more quickly, L.A. 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They estimate there are about 400 homeless people living in the neighborhood. The facility will have 65 beds and will be open for a maximum of three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Council was expected to vote Friday on the emergency shelter without a public hearing. But after hearing demands from upset community members, Council President Herb Wesson agreed to restart the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wesson has agreed to look at least one alternative site for the Koreatown shelter, in addition to the disputed site. In a \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/x_lWCNk8PyfWVLni4nKFK?domain=herbwesson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> released Thursday morning, Wesson said he would review different sites and hold community meetings in Koreatown before the City Council takes final action on a temporary housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the justification for not having [a] public hearing? We want to help. We want to be part of this decision-making procedure. That’s all we want,” said Jake Jeong, an attorney and Koreatown community leader, before Wesson changed his approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed shelter is bringing up some deep-seated anxieties within the Korean-American community that the city is not listening to their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe people think we are selfish [because] we [are] against the homeless shelter. We are not selfish. We’re just asking, they have to respect us, OK? We work hard, we pay taxes and they are not hearing us. They are not respecting us. 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One of them, Johnny Lee, is a restaurant owner in Koreatown and held a sign at Saturday’s rally that read “Koreatown Choose Love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never had so many homeless encampments in Koreatown that I’ve known. I’ve never seen so many before. And I’d love to see something be done about that,” Lee said. “I know a lot of business owners in Koreatown want to see something done about that, too. They don’t want their storefronts to look unattractive because people can’t find restrooms to use and they won’t allow them to use [their] restrooms. So what will they do, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists say several lawsuits are being filed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The city of Los Angeles has been addressing the homelessness crisis by approving new shelters and turning old motels into temporary shelters. It appears to be having modest success. This year’s homeless count showed a 3 percent decline in the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Read More of KQED’s Coverage for the SF Homeless Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/SFHomeless_long_Horizontal-02-e1467163328567.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To get the homeless off the streets more quickly, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has launched a $20 million campaign called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.lamayor.org/emergency-temporary-housing-homeless-angelenos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bridge Home\u003c/a>” to put new shelters in each of the 15 council districts. The first would be placed in a city-owned parking lot in Koreatown. But resistance there has taken the form of demonstrations, marches and a petition that has received thousands of signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw1-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Jake Jeong, an attorney and community leader in Koreatown, leads the crowd in a call and response demanding a public hearing on the proposed temporary homeless shelter at 7th and Vermont.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Jeong, an attorney and community leader in Koreatown, leads the crowd in a call and response demanding a public hearing on the proposed temporary homeless shelter at Seventh and Vermont. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials say this site was selected based on data of homeless encampments in Koreatown. They estimate there are about 400 homeless people living in the neighborhood. The facility will have 65 beds and will be open for a maximum of three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles City Council was expected to vote Friday on the emergency shelter without a public hearing. But after hearing demands from upset community members, Council President Herb Wesson agreed to restart the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wesson has agreed to look at least one alternative site for the Koreatown shelter, in addition to the disputed site. In a \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/x_lWCNk8PyfWVLni4nKFK?domain=herbwesson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> released Thursday morning, Wesson said he would review different sites and hold community meetings in Koreatown before the City Council takes final action on a temporary housing facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That’s not fair,” said one protester, Karen Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw2-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” said protester Emmanuel Han.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“After 1992 when this community was burned to the ground, it was built up by the blood, sweat and tears of Korean-Americans. And it’s just finally been revitalized and has actually been improving for the past couple of decades,” protester Emmanuel Han said. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents also expressed concerns about homeless people bringing drugs and crime to the area. Officials counter that the housing will have 24/7 police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another issue. There are about five schools within a mile of the proposed shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester, Myung Jin, wore a shirt with the logo from her son’s school, just a short walk away. Her son is 13 and autistic, and she worries for his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a belief among Korean-Americans that homelessness is not their community’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to L.A. homeless statistics, Los Angeles County is 14 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, but that group makes up just 1 percent of the homeless population. No other group — white, black or Latino — can compare with that ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joon Bang, head of the Korean American Coalition of Los Angeles, says a growing number of Korean-American seniors are experiencing homelessness. They are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_htWWqFusA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often hidden\u003c/a>, sleeping in church pews or at 24-hour spas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11677763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kcrw3-1020x765.jpeg\" alt=\"Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown LA, rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Yeo and Angela Joo both say that homeless services and housing should be concentrated in downtown L.A., rather than in neighborhoods like Koreatown. \u003ccite>(Avishay Artsy/KCRW)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raymond Kim, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/No-Shelter-on-682Vermont-624282231257969/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Facebook page\u003c/a> that opposes the Koreatown shelter, raised the issue of support structures created by families and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in Koreatown has a friend or a family that’s been in terrible condition,” Kim said. “They’ve been down on their luck and they’ve housed them. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, with a united bid from North America winning the right to host soccer's showcase event, the sport's world governing body decided on Wednesday. While the final cities selected to host games will be finalized over the next two years, San Francisco and Los Angeles are among the 17 cities in the U.S. being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The united North American bid was selected over a competing bid from Morocco, in a vote among some 203 FIFA members that was held in Moscow on the eve of the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Russia. World Cup games start Thursday, but the U.S. men's team was eliminated in qualification and will not be competing. The tally was 134 votes for the united bid and 65 votes for Morocco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thank you so, so very much for this incredible honor,\" Carlos Cordeiro, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, said after the vote was taken. \"Thank you for entrusting us with this privilege.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be the first time three countries have joined to host the World Cup — previously, South Korea and Japan had jointly hosted the 2002 Cup. The plan calls for the U.S. to host 60 matches, and its neighbors to host 10 each. A final list of 16 cities, across the three countries, will be finalized in 2021, but will likely include three in Mexico, three in Canada and the remaining 10 in the U.S. After some cities withdrew from bidding consideration, the list has been narrowed down to: Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey (in Mexico); Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto (in Canada); and Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando, Miami, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle (in the U.S.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, games would be played at Levi's Stadium, and in Los Angeles, games would take place at either the Rose Bowl or the currently under construction NFL stadium in Inglewood or potentially the Coliseum in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the U.S. hosted a World Cup match was in 1994; Mexico first hosted in 1970. Both of those tournaments remain among the most-attended World Cups in history. Mexico is set to become the only country to host three World Cups, having also hosted in 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to years of scandals and suspicions over its selection process, FIFA sought to position this vote as a transparent and open process. After the vote was tallied, FIFA revealed \u003ca href=\"https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/voting-results-for-the-2026-fifa-world-cup.pdf?cloudid=vpnl19m2xr8zk50mnor3\">how each country had voted\u003c/a>, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the hopeful host countries took part in the vote; neither did U.S. territories that have soccer federations, such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among countries that have been in the news lately, here are some votes that stuck out: North Korea voted for Morocco, as did France, the Netherlands and Italy. Iran cast the sole vote for \"None of the bids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote was held, the organization displayed its evaluation of the two top bids, showing that it had given a decisive edge to the North Americans in several crucial criteria, covering stadiums, accommodations and transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was the crowning moment of the 68th FIFA Congress, held the day before Russia will face Saudi Arabia as the 2018 tournament begins in Moscow. It will conclude on July 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the proceedings, FIFA President Gianni Infantino of Switzerland — who was narrowly chosen to lead the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/26/468227519/fifa-members-approve-anti-corruption-reforms-limit-presidents-power\">two years ago\u003c/a>, after former president Sepp Blatter resigned in disgrace — announced that he will run for re-election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional reporting by KQED staff.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, with a united bid from North America winning the right to host soccer's showcase event, the sport's world governing body decided on Wednesday. While the final cities selected to host games will be finalized over the next two years, San Francisco and Los Angeles are among the 17 cities in the U.S. being considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The united North American bid was selected over a competing bid from Morocco, in a vote among some 203 FIFA members that was held in Moscow on the eve of the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Russia. World Cup games start Thursday, but the U.S. men's team was eliminated in qualification and will not be competing. The tally was 134 votes for the united bid and 65 votes for Morocco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thank you so, so very much for this incredible honor,\" Carlos Cordeiro, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, said after the vote was taken. \"Thank you for entrusting us with this privilege.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be the first time three countries have joined to host the World Cup — previously, South Korea and Japan had jointly hosted the 2002 Cup. The plan calls for the U.S. to host 60 matches, and its neighbors to host 10 each. A final list of 16 cities, across the three countries, will be finalized in 2021, but will likely include three in Mexico, three in Canada and the remaining 10 in the U.S. After some cities withdrew from bidding consideration, the list has been narrowed down to: Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey (in Mexico); Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto (in Canada); and Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando, Miami, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle (in the U.S.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, games would be played at Levi's Stadium, and in Los Angeles, games would take place at either the Rose Bowl or the currently under construction NFL stadium in Inglewood or potentially the Coliseum in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a serene, leafy street in north Pasadena, a 70-year-old man has lived a quiet life in a well-preserved Craftsman house since his family bought it in 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps the lawn mowed, he chats with the neighbors, and sometimes he smokes Parliament cigarettes with his tea on the front porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a June day 50 years ago, one of his older brothers left this same house with a loaded .22 pistol. He got into his pink and white ’56 DeSoto and drove to a gun range. Later that evening, he headed to the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had just won California’s Democratic primary election. He concluded his rousing victory speech with the words, “My thanks to all of you and now it’s on to Chicago and let’s win this!” and stepped from the ballroom into a small, crowded kitchen pantry surrounded by excited supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, California state prisoner B21014, will have his next parole hearing in 2021. His brother will be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never made it to Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shots rang out and Kennedy was down, taking two bullets in the back and one in the head. Members of the crowd jumped on the shooter and slammed him onto a steam table. A hotel employee grabbed his wrist as the gun emptied, the shots firing at random, wounding five others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was rushed to a hospital. Twenty-six hours later, he was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged assassin was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Arab Palestinian. He was not a U.S. citizen, but had been living in Pasadena for 12 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the nation stood in shock at the second Kennedy killing in five years, the media became consumed with the question: Who was this person?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">The L.A. Busboy Who Cradled a Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11671974/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/romeronpr1_custom-aae2056fb7c478c80e59ad38e4680c2581f3b3a4-1020x641.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He was just a fun-loving guy. He liked life, and he liked family,” says Munir Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s the brother of Kennedy’s convicted assassin. “If anybody was trying to do me any harm, he’d go up and confront the people and tell’em, ‘Listen, this is my little brother. I don’t want anybody hurting him.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan Sirhan was tried and sentenced to the gas chamber, a sentence that was commuted to life in 1972. Since then, he’s been denied parole 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know what? I just want to hug him,” his brother Munir says. “Hug him and tell him, ‘Welcome home.’ I’d just like to see him reading a book on that chair like he used to when we were kids, and just walk around the block with him. I’d be happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 50 years, Munir has waited for his brother to return to this house in Pasadena. And for the last 50 years, he’s lived in the wake of his brother’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir leads a solitary life. He never got married, never had a career. He worked odd jobs and was supported by his family, who always pooled their modest resources. He keeps the furniture in the house pretty much as it was the day Sirhan drove away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the family’s parents and six children, Munir and his older brother are the only ones left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, yeah, Sirhan and I. It’d be pretty rough without him, even if it’s just letter-writing,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673065\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/04-WP-RS31287_IMG_5521-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan next to a photo taken during a prison visit with his brother Sirhan Sirhan. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, the Sirhan family — who were Arab Palestinian Christians — were living in Jerusalem, an area experiencing continued upheaval in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Munir says this was the violent backdrop for his early childhood memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[There was] a lot of hecticness,” he says. “A lot of air raid sirens going off every other day. I remember going to my best friend’s home, and they’re telling me he’s not coming to school today and wondering why, and then the next day you find out he got blown away from a bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a program initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the United Nations, a ship overcrowded with seasick refugees brought the family to America in 1956, leaving the Holy Land for the paradise of Pasadena where their sponsor lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ya know, we got along, we made friends, it was OK, but you couldn’t be an Arab here, you couldn’t be an Arab at all,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His devout mother Mary got a job in the nursery at Westminster Presbyterian Church, walking distance from the house. His father returned to the old country, unable to adapt to life in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother's lemon tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/05-WP-RS31285_IMG_5490-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munir Sirhan, younger brother of convicted Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, at the family home next to his brother’s lemon tree. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sirhan and Munir, their two youngest sons, attended local public schools and got paper routes for the Pasadena Star-News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan was a reader, and spent a lot of time holed up in his bedroom at the back of the house. At John Muir High School in Pasadena — the same school Jackie Robinson attended — he joined the ROTC and learned to shoot a .22 rifle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir had bad eyesight and quit school after 6th grade. He watched a lot of TV: “Felix the Cat,” “The Three Stooges” and “Yogi Bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was becoming an American. He loved music and he loved records, and he really loved song parodist Stan Freberg, the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I adored that guy,” says Munir. “I think that’s what I would have been, some sort of comedy songwriter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all. You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a job at F.C. Nash department store in Pasadena as a stock clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this mundane position was not without dark significance. Through a co-worker, Munir got his brother a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He asked me if I could get a gun. Sirhan used to belong to the ROTC at Muir, I said, ‘sure, I’ll ask,'” Munir recalls. “At work I asked a fellow employee and he said, ‘Yeah, I have a friend that has one he wants to sell.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to LAPD interview transcripts from 1968, Munir tried to talk his brother out of buying the .22, finally demanding that he swear on their dead sister’s memory that he would “go to the rifle range one time and then throw it away.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan did swear, but, as Munir told the cops, “he didn’t carry it through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673063\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673063\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/02-WP-RS31286_IMG_6002-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just after graduating from Eliot Junior High School in Pasadena. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So one night in January, Munir’s work buddy drove over to the house in a Corvair, pulled up and honked. He had an eight-shot Iver Johnson revolver in a box. Sirhan came out on the porch and they made the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Munir was concerned, it was no big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no idea it would have this kind of an outcome, no idea at all,” he says. “You start looking inward to see if you were part of the blame for this thing happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weekday morning in June 1968: Munir got on the bus and went to work at Nash’s. He stepped into the employees lounge before clocking in. For him, at this point it was still just another workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The TV was on loud and the room was full and usually it’s not that full unless it’s somebody’s birthday, and I’m thinking it’s too early to celebrate a birthday,” he recalls. “I walked over and put coins in the coffee machine and took a couple sips of my coffee and looked at the screen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he saw stunned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.’\u003ccite>Munir Sirhan\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It looked like Sirhan. I said, ‘Whoa!’ Picture came on again and I said, ‘That’s my brother.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, within a matter of seconds, Munir’s day goes from another eight hours in housewares to the shock that his brother is being held for shooting Robert F. Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What went through his mind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought when this thing happened, they got the wrong guy,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir borrowed his boss’s car, picked up his brother Adel from home and they headed for the Pasadena police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officer didn’t seem too interested, so we walked away, and Adel happened to gaze at a newsstand and there it was, Sirhan’s picture on the front page,” says Munir. “So he grabbed the paper and went back to the desk sergeant, told him, ‘This is my brother.’ I remember the guy’s look. He said, ‘Oh!’ Then all hell broke loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police quickly camped out on Munir’s street — and would remain for the next six months — to protect the family, though Munir says there were never any acts of vengeance. Nevertheless, it turned the neighborhood upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is from a televised interview in front of the family house a few days later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police Chief Redden said the Sirhan family has been most cooperative in the investigation. ‘We know very little. [Sirhan] has been noncommunicative and he hasn’t told the family about what he’s been up to at all. So we don’t know anything more than you do.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“When things somewhat cooled down, after we spoke with the FBI, after we spoke with the L.A. police and Pasadena police, mother and I went down to see him,” says Munir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir's Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan's copy of "Controlling the Human Mind." Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/03-WP-RS31288_IMG_5993-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book shelf in the Sirhan family home, including Munir’s Kennedy volumes and his brother Sirhan’s copy of “Controlling the Human Mind.” Sirhan was interested in hypnotism at the time of the assassination. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did his brother say anything about shooting Kennedy or not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, no, no,” Munir says. “Mother asked him, ‘What happened?’ He said, ‘I don’t remember. I don’t know. All I know is my leg hurts,’ and I think it was one of his thumbs that were hurting. He specifically said, ‘I don’t remember what happened.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lack of memory of the actual shooting of Kennedy is something that Sirhan has continued to maintain, though in a 1989 TV interview with David Frost he said his motivation to target Kennedy was the senator’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frost asked, “Why did Robert Kennedy, the friend of the downtrodden, become the focus of this hatred?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because to me he was my hero,” Sirhan Sirhan responded. “He was my champion. He was the protector and the defender of the downtrodden and the disadvantaged and I felt that I was one. And to have him say that he was going to send 50 Phantom jets to Israel to deliver nothing but death and destruction on my countrymen, that seemed as though it was a betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munir says his brother never shared those feelings with him and that he never heard him express any negative feelings toward Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no, no,” he emphasizes. “None of us were politically inclined. If you would’ve told me any of my brothers did anything like this, especially Sirhan, I’d call you the biggest liar in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the “Manchurian Candidate” theory, that Sirhan was acting under hypnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could explain his calm demeanor that witnesses remarked upon immediately after the shooting, and the notebook police later found in his bedroom with “RFK must die” scrawled repeatedly, something hypnotism advocates say was automatic writing done during a trance state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know this sounds like a cliché,” says Munir, “but he had played around with hypnotism and somewhere along the line he learned how to self-hypnotize himself, or somebody got into his head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the living room of the family house, there are glass-doored shelves filled with books. Stuck between yellowing copies of “Word Power Made Easy” and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is an old hardback that belongs to Sirhan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a book here that deals with personality or something,” says Munir, leaning in to find the book. He plucks out a volume called “The Laws of Mental Domination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked him about it one day but I never got any clear answers,” Munir says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypnosis and brainwashing and conspiracies aside, forensic evidence states that the shot that killed Kennedy came from no more than three inches from the back of his head, where an armed, private security guard had drawn his weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyewitnesses place Sirhan as never closer than a few feet away and approaching Kennedy from the front. An audio tape recorded that night surfaced in 2004. Experts say it reveals up to 13 shots fired. Sirhan’s gun held eight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This knowledge and its implications — the possibility that a second gunman was responsible for Kennedy’s murder — are what Munir clings to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t there but the people that were, they all say that they heard more shots, Sirhan wasn’t close enough,” Munir says. “These are eyewitnesses, it was not us, the family, making these things up. When we heard those things it gave us a little bit of hope that maybe Sirhan didn’t do it, like we thought all along. It wasn’t Sirhan. Not my brother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At moments like this, sitting in the still and quiet dining room as his cigarette burns slowly in the ashtray, you can feel the helpless frustration that’s weighed upon Munir for decades over a situation he didn’t ask for, but one he has accepted as best he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the '60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It's no longer running.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673062\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/01-WP-RS31289_IMG_6004-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sirhan family tape recorder purchased in the ’60s. Before the assassination, it was used to record family sing alongs. Later, the Sirhans recorded audio from TV news reports. It’s no longer running. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eileen Sloman, her husband Peter and son Ernie have lived next door to Munir for almost 30 years. To her, he’s just “Manny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love Manny. He’s a really nice guy,” she says. “He’s a great neighbor, and when we’re gone he watches the house, when he’s gone we’ll watch his house, and just a few years ago he gave me his phone number. He’s let me in, a little bit at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, she’s seen the odd tour bus cruise by, and Munir once cautioned her to move her trash bins away from his on pickup day. Souvenir hunters sometimes root through the garbage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the assassination, Munir says his neighbors were very supportive, and even in public his last name has never brought him trouble. No altercations, no curses, no nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does get recognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, I had jobs that my name would be printed on my shirt,” he says. “I’ve never had anybody that held any animosity toward us at all. In fact, I didn’t like it, but a lot of people would say, ‘You’re famous,’ or go out of their way to help because of the notoriety and I’d tell them, ‘Please, I have my own individuality.’ That’s been going on for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his individuality is a buried and private thing. Hang around with him for a while, and he seems like a regular guy. But a regular guy is a very hard thing to be when your brother was convicted of killing a Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the outside he’s friendly, he loves to talk,” offers Sloman, “I don’t understand really what he’s been going through, but to know that his last brother has been serving the last 50 years of his life in prison has got to be just horrible. Tearing him apart basically, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sirhan is currently residing in his fifth California prison since 1968, the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving is hard for Munir these days given his failing vision, so it’s mostly phone calls and letters between him and Sirhan, and even those are random.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they do come, he’s still talking to his big brother. The guy who used to look out for him so long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“’Stop smoking, it’s bad for you,’” Munir says his brother tells him. “’It’s the number one killer in the United States. Take care of yourself … I need you alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Munir marks time in the house, alone. Ask him what his days are like and he shrugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks to the lawyers when they need something, and spends his dwindling eyesight reading and rereading boxes of briefs and transcripts, still trying to make sense of everything that’s consumed him for 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He seems to take it all in stride, but every now and again, just for a moment, something else comes to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have a life of your own at all,” says Munir Sirhan. “I’m lost, still am. Did he do it? Didn’t he do it? People were there that say this and people were there that say that. I wasn’t there. I have to rely on my brother, and he says ‘I don’t remember.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been generations since that night in 1968. Who was Sirhan? Who was Robert Kennedy, even? What is unforgettable to older Americans has become vague or simply unknown to younger people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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