![]() ![]() Prosecutors declined to participate or to oppose his release under a policy by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. On August 27, 2021, after years of being denied parole, he was granted parole by a two-person panel of the California parole board. ![]() Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California. Sirhan was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. stemming from the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in the Middle East. In 1989, he told David Frost: "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians." Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the U.S. ![]() Sirhan was born to an Arab Christian family in Jerusalem, where he attended a Lutheran school. Kennedy, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California Kennedy died the next day at Good Samaritan Hospital. Sirhan shot Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of President John F. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan ( / s ɪər ˈ h ɑː n/ Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān, born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian Jordanian man who was convicted of the June 5, 1968, assassination of Robert F. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California.įirst-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder (5 counts) ĭeath in 1969 commuted in 1972 to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole ![]()
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