RFK ASSASSIN GIVEN THE DEATH PENALTY 50 YEARS AGO
After winning the California Primary on June 4, 1968, RFK gave a short victory speech in which he said...
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 he has no memory of the shooting.
*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 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) Fifty years ago, April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan*, charged with killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York in early June 1968, was given the death penalty.
After winning the California Primary on June 4, 1968, RFK gave a short victory speech in which he said...
"And now its on to Chicago and let's win there."
The Senator and his party exited the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel and then was shot as he was walking through the kitchen area shaking hands with employees.
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 he has no memory of the shooting.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 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 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/
Sirhan Sirhan
