LOS ANGELES— Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian convicted of
shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United
States was granted parole on Friday.
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Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, has been behind bars for five decades — despite
doubts that he fired the shots that likely changed the course of US politics.
Kennedy, the younger brother of slain president John F. Kennedy, was
campaigning for the Democratic nomination when he was gunned down in a Los
Angeles hotel.
Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to death in 1969 after pleading guilty.
His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment several years
later.
But doubts soon surfaced that he was actually responsible for Bobby
Kennedy's death, with claims that there could have been a second gunman in the
Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968.
On a walkabout in the kitchen where he met staff, he was shot, as were
several other people in his entourage, among them Paul Schrade, who took a
bullet to the head.
Schrade, along with Kennedy's then-14-year-old son, have since campaigned
for Sirhan's release, saying the evidence against him does not stack up.
During Friday's hearing, Kennedy's youngest son, Douglas, spoke in favor
of Sirhan's release, media reports said, adding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr
had sent a letter of support to the parole board.
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