Robert Healy, longtime Globe reporter, editor dies
BOSTON—The Boston Globe says Robert L. Healy, a longtime reporter and editor who is credited with kicking the gun from the hand of Sirhan Sirhan, Sen. Robert Kennedy's assassin, has died of a stroke at his home in Jupiter, Fla. He was 84.
The Globe says Healy was the last reporter to speak to Kennedy the night of his death in June 1968 and that he kicked the gun from Sirhan after the assassin was wrestled to the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
During World War II, Healy served in the Army Air Corps and flew in bombing missions over Germany.