Another case where a court declined to adopt the neutral reportage theory was Khawar v. Globe International, Inc. n118
The Khawar Court held that the neutral reportage privilege did not apply to a newspaper's report regarding a private
figure. Twenty years after Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, a book titled "The Senator Must Die: The
Murder of Robert Kennedy" named Ali Ahmand, and not Sirhan Sirhan, as Senator Robert Kennedy's assassin. n119
The book described Ahmand as a Pakistani man who wore a "gold-colored sweater and carried what appeared to be a
camera but was actually the gun with which Ahmand killed Kennedy". n120 The book's photographs featured an arrow
pointing to "Ahmand" near Kennedy that night, but the real person to which the arrows were actually pointing was
photographer Khalid Khawar who had a picture taken with Robert Kennedy very shortly before Kennedy was killed.
n121 At the time the book was published, Sirhan Sirhan had already been convicted for assassinating Kennedy. n122
The tabloid, Globe, published an article describing the book, and featured the same photographs that the book had,
pointing out Khawar as the Senator's killer. n123 After the tabloid's article was published, Khawar and his family
received death threats. n124 Khawar later sued Globe for the article that detailed the book's incorrect claim and the
photographs that asserted a false statement that Khawar was the one responsible for Kennedy's death. n125 Police,
however, never considered Khawar a suspect. n126
Another case where a court declined to adopt the neutral reportage theory was Khawar v. Globe International, Inc. n118
The Khawar Court held that the neutral reportage privilege did not apply to a newspaper's report regarding a private
figure. Twenty years after Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, a book titled "The Senator Must Die: The
Murder of Robert Kennedy" named Ali Ahmand, and not Sirhan Sirhan, as Senator Robert Kennedy's assassin. n119
The book described Ahmand as a Pakistani man who wore a "gold-colored sweater and carried what appeared to be a
camera but was actually the gun with which Ahmand killed Kennedy". n120 The book's photographs featured an arrow
pointing to "Ahmand" near Kennedy that night, but the real person to which the arrows were actually pointing was
photographer Khalid Khawar who had a picture taken with Robert Kennedy very shortly before Kennedy was killed.
n121 At the time the book was published, Sirhan Sirhan had already been convicted for assassinating Kennedy. n122
The tabloid, Globe, published an article describing the book, and featured the same photographs that the book had,
pointing out Khawar as the Senator's killer. n123 After the tabloid's article was published, Khawar and his family
received death threats. n124 Khawar later sued Globe for the article that detailed the book's incorrect claim and the
photographs that asserted a false statement that Khawar was the one responsible for Kennedy's death. n125 Police,
however, never considered Khawar a suspect. n126
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