{"id":1216448,"date":"2022-01-14T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216448"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:50:38","slug":"sirhan-sirhan-to-remain-in-prison-palestinian-who-assassinated-robert-f-kennedy-denied-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sirhan-sirhan-to-remain-in-prison-palestinian-who-assassinated-robert-f-kennedy-denied-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirhan Sirhan to Remain in Prison: Palestinian Who Assassinated Robert F. Kennedy Denied Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsirhan-sirhan-to-remain-in-prison-palestinian-who-assassinated-robert-f-kennedy-denied-parole%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sirhan Sirhan,&nbsp;the Palestinian immigrant convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968,&nbsp;was denied parole Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>California governor&nbsp;Gavin Newsom (D) said the killer remains a threat to the public and hasn\u2019t taken responsibility for a crime that added a dark page to the annals of U.S. history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kennedy, a Democratic U.S. senator from New York, was shot within moments of claiming victory in California\u2019s pivotal Democratic presidential primary. Five others were wounded during the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Sirhan Sirhan later said he resented Kennedy partly because of his support for Israel. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/27\/california-paroles-sirhan-sirhan-palestinian-who-assassinated-robert-f-kennedy\/\">shouted<\/a>&nbsp;he had killed Kennedy \u201cfor my country\u201d at the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/27\/california-paroles-sirhan-sirhan-palestinian-who-assassinated-robert-f-kennedy-1986\/\">reported<\/a>,&nbsp;Sirhan Sirhan\u2019s initial parole request was granted last August on the 16th try, thanks in part to the decision of George Soros-based Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n not to oppose his parole application.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOCK: A parole board in California voted Friday in favor of the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wV0aPY8O4J\">https:\/\/t.co\/wV0aPY8O4J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1431940973332992001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sirhan-sirhan-parole-denied-5fc641a6dfc4bb7636075857a132fb7c\">reports<\/a> Newsom has now rejected a recommendation from a two-person panel of parole commissioners who said Sirhan, 77, should be freed. The panel\u2019s recommendation in August had divided the Kennedy family, with two of RFK\u2019s sons \u2014 Douglas Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2014 supporting his release, and their siblings and mother vehemently opposing it.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.13.22-Sirhan-Reverse-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his decision,<\/a>&nbsp;Newsom said the assassination was \u201camong the most notorious crimes in American history,\u201d Aside from causing Kennedy\u2019s then-pregnant wife and 10 children \u201cimmeasurable suffering,\u201d Newsom said the killing \u201calso caused great harm to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19486450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-2641890.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19486450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-2641890-810x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sirhan Sirhan, charged with the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy during a campaign stop in California, is the subject of investigation by U.S. authorities after an Arab government provided new evidence about his identity. (Keystone\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">It \u201cupended the 1968 presidential election, leaving millions in the United States and beyond mourning the promise of his candidacy,\u201d Newsom wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">\u201cMr. Sirhan killed Senator Kennedy during a dark season of political assassinations, just nine weeks after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s murder and four and a half years after the murder of Senator Kennedy\u2019s brother, President John F. Kennedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">He said Sirhan still lacks insight, refuses to accept responsibility and has failed to disclaim violence committed in his name, according to AP. That adds \u201cto his current risk of inciting further political violence,\u201d Newsom wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Kennedy\u2019s widow, Ethel, and six of his children hailed Newsom\u2019s decision in&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1pmYzuaykh40qPmDLCLtnQD0EEI71rtyo\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement<\/a>&nbsp;that called RFK a \u201cvisionary and champion of justice\u201d whose life \u201cwas cut short by an enraged man with a small gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19486538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/before-court-sirhan-sirhan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19486538 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/before-court-sirhan-sirhan-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"4th June 1968: Two full-length police portraits of Jordanian assassin Sirhan Sirhan the night he assassinated Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/4th June 1968: Two police portraits of assassin Sirhan Sirhan the night he assassinated Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Los Angeles, California. (Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">\u201cThe political passions that motivated this inmate\u2019s act still simmer today, and his refusal to admit the truth makes it impossible to conclude that he has overcome the evil that boiled over 53 years ago,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The panel\u2019s decision was based in part on several new California laws since he was denied parole in 2016 \u2014 the 15th time he\u2019d lost his bid for release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Sirhan originally was sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\"><em>AP contributed to this story<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirhan Sirhan,\u00a0the Palestinian immigrant convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968,\u00a0was denied parole Thursday. 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