LOS ANGELES — A California parole board Wednesday rejected a parole request by the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan Sirhan has spent 42 years behind bars for the assassination in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel.
The parole hearing was Sirhan’s 13th. The parole board has repeatedly rejected Sirhan’s appeals for release for failing to accept responsibility or show remorse for Kennedy’s death.
Sirhan’s attorney, William F. Pepper, told The Associated Press that his client had no memory of the events and suggested a second gunman was involved in the crime.
Sirhan, now 66, shot Kennedy on June 5, 1968, moments after the New York senator had claimed victory in the California Democratic presidential primary. Sirhan said on the day of the killing, “I did it for my country.” At his trial, Sirhan said on the witness stand that he killed Kennedy “premeditatedly with 20 years of malice aforethought.” Los Angeles Times
