Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin granted parole in California
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Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination when he was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel in 1968.
The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole on August 27. Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, had tried on 15 previous occasions to be released from the life sentence imposed five decades earlier. The vote on August 27 by a two-person panel of the California parole board does not mean that Sirhan will automatically be released. The decision is subject to a three-month review, and then ultimately passes to Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who faces a recall vote in September.More Related News