Then it will be sent to the governor, who will have 30 days to decide whether to grant it, reverse it or modify it, according to The Washington Post.
Sirhan assassinated Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of June 5, 1968, moments after the senator from New York — and the younger brother of President John F.
“Over half a century has passed,” Sirhan told the two parole commissioners, according to the Post.
Sirhan had originally been sentenced to death for the murder, but California abolished capital punishment in 1972.
Sirhan, then a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant who had written a manifesto calling for Kennedy’s death, shot the senator outside the since-demolished Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1968.
“I’m overwhelmed just by being able to view Mr. Sirhan face to face,” Douglas Kennedy said.
Angela Berry, Sirhan’s attorney, said her client had not been accused of a serious violation of prison rules since 1972, the first year he was eligible for parole.
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