DEATH PENALTY TO SIRHAN SIRHAN
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan*, who was charged with killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York on June 5, 1968, was given the death penalty.
After winning the California Primary on June 4, RFK had just completed a short victory speech in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles when he was shot.
In 1972, California abolished the Death Penalty and Sirhan's sentence was changed to Life. At his 16th parole hearing in 2016, 91 year old Paul Schrade, who was shot in the assassination attempt, testified that Sirhan fired the shot that hit him, but did not believe Sirhan was in position to kill RFK.
Despite the testimony, parole was once again denied. Sirhan claims that he has no memory of the shooting. He said, "It's all vague now."
*Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was born in 1944 in Jerusalem. His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was 12. SBS atteneded Pasadena City College & is currently serving his sentence for the murder of RFK at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
**Eyewitnesses in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel at the time of the shooting said that Sirhan Sirhan was always in front of RFK, but the autopsy reported RFK died as a result of a shot entering behind the right ear.
SOURCE
"Sirhan Sirhan denied parole despite a Kennedy confidant's call for assassin's release", by Peter Holley, The Washington Post, February 11, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan*, who was charged with killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York on June 5, 1968, was given the death penalty.
After winning the California Primary on June 4, RFK had just completed a short victory speech in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles when he was shot.
In 1972, California abolished the Death Penalty and Sirhan's sentence was changed to Life. At his 16th parole hearing in 2016, 91 year old Paul Schrade, who was shot in the assassination attempt, testified that Sirhan fired the shot that hit him, but did not believe Sirhan was in position to kill RFK.
Despite the testimony, parole was once again denied. Sirhan claims that he has no memory of the shooting. He said, "It's all vague now."
*Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was born in 1944 in Jerusalem. His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was 12. SBS atteneded Pasadena City College & is currently serving his sentence for the murder of RFK at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
**Eyewitnesses in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel at the time of the shooting said that Sirhan Sirhan was always in front of RFK, but the autopsy reported RFK died as a result of a shot entering behind the right ear.
SOURCE
"Sirhan Sirhan denied parole despite a Kennedy confidant's call for assassin's release", by Peter Holley, The Washington Post, February 11, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/
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