Paul Schrade nasceu o 17 de dezembro de 1924 em Nova Iorque, EUA. Foi casado com Monica Weil. Morreu o 9 de novembro de 2022 em Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA.
He was a union leader who worked on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign, and was struck in the head by a bullet when an assassin fatally wounded Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968. He spent much of his life trying to prove that gunman Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone.
