Paul Schrade

{{Short description|American union leader (1924–2022)}}

{{For|the filmmaker|Paul Schrader}}

File:Paul Schrade, 1967.jpgPaul Schrade (December 17, 1924 – November 9, 2022) was an American trade union activist. While vice president of the United Auto Workers, he was shot in the head during the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-09/paul-schrade-dies-union-leader-survived-bullet-to-the-head-when-robert-f-kennedy-was-killed?_amp=true | title=Paul Schrade dies; union leader survived bullet to the head when Robert F. Kennedy was killed | website=Los Angeles Times | date=9 November 2022 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/paul-schrade-dead.html | title=Paul Schrade, 97, Who Was Wounded when Robert Kennedy Was Slain, Dies | work=The New York Times | date=13 November 2022 | last1=Sandomir | first1=Richard }}{{Cite news|url=https://people.com/politics/paul-schrade-survived-rfk-assassination-okay-with-sirhan-sirhan-parole/|title=Survivor of RFK Assassination Is Okay with Parole for Sirhan Sirhan — and He Still Questions What Happened|website=People}} Schrade believed that while he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan, Kennedy was shot by a second gunman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031507957/sirhan-sirhan-robert-f-kennedy-parole-hearing|title=Sirhan Sirhan Has Served 53 Years For Killing Robert F. Kennedy. Soon He May Be Free|first=Martin|last=Kaste|date=August 28, 2021|website=NPR}} He spoke in favor of granting Sirhan parole in 2021.{{Cite news |date=2021-08-27 |title=RFK assassin Sirhan wins parole with support of 2 Kennedys |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/27/da-rfk-killer-sirhan-parole-506991 |work=Politico}}

Paul Schrade is featured in the Netflix documentary Bobby Kennedy for President.{{cite web | url=https://www.netflix.com/watch/80174284?trackId=255824129 | title=Watch Bobby Kennedy for President | Netflix Official Site | website=Netflix }} The Paul Schrade Library at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts was named after him.{{cite web |url=https://www.lahsa.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=865872&type=d&pREC_ID=1225506 |title=The Paul Schrade Library |author= |website=lahsa.net/ |access-date=3 March 2023 |quote=The RFK Secondary School Library, named after union rights advocate and RFK supporter Paul Schrade, sits in the site of the Ambassador Hotel's former Grand Ballroom. }}

On the question of CIA involvement in the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Schrade said, "It's possible. I mean, they've done worse things, haven't they?"{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sDQFLmPX8&t=3862s | title=RFK Must Die - The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy | website=YouTube | date=17 August 2016 | access-date=3 March 2023 }}