{"id":19697,"date":"2021-08-27T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:51:10","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-assassin-sirhan-sirhan-recommended-for-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/08\/27\/robert-f-kennedy-assassin-sirhan-sirhan-recommended-for-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan recommended for parole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Californian parole board has voted to grant prison release to the murderer of Democratic 1968 presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy (RFK).<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sirhan Sirhan served 53 years in jail for shooting the frontrunner after a speech at a Los Angeles hotel, arguably altering the course of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The vote, establishing that he is not a public threat, does not necessarily guarantee he will walk free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The decision now falls to Californian Governor Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Democrat is currently in the throes of an election campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Over half a century has passed,” Sirhan reportedly told parole commissioners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“That young impulsive kid I was does not exist anymore.”<\/p>\n

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“Senator Kennedy was the hope of the world and I injured, and I harmed all of them and it pains me to experience that, the knowledge for such a horrible deed,” he added according to the Associated Press, the only news agency that was allowed to attend his parole hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The local district attorney’s office in LA has said that they will not move to oppose his release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now 77, the Palestinian-born assassin was requesting parole for the 16th time. He said after his arrest he had carried out his attack over the then-senator’s support for US aid to Israel. He later said he had no memory of the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The board’s decision came after two of Kennedy’s children appealed to the parole board to release their father’s killer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I really do believe any prisoner who is found to be not a threat to themselves or the world should be released,” Douglas Kennedy said, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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