1. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5,1968.
Sirhan Sirhan is incarcerated at Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.
Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole again on March 1,2023.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Mandatory Palestine, in Jerusalem's Musrara neighborhood, and became a Jordanian citizen after Jordan annexed the West Bank.
When Sirhan was 12 years old, his family immigrated to the US, moving briefly to New York and then to California.
Sirhan Sirhan attended Eliot Junior High School, John Muir High School, and Pasadena City College.
Sirhan Sirhan died about 26 hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital.
The assassination spawned many conspiracy theories, many of which claimed there was a "second gunman" or that Sirhan was not the true killer.
Alvin Clark, Sirhan's garbage collector, testified that Sirhan had told him a month before the attack of his intention to shoot Kennedy.
Sirhan Sirhan explained in an interview with David Frost in 1989 that this referred to the time since the creation of the State of Israel.
Sirhan Sirhan has maintained since then that he has no memory of the crime or of making that statement in court.
The defense based its case primarily on the expert testimony of Bernard L Diamond, a professor of law and psychiatry, who testified that Sirhan was suffering from diminished capacity at the time of the murder.
Sirhan Sirhan argued that Sirhan could not get a fair hearing in Los Angeles, where a man who helped prosecute him was then a federal judge: US District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr.
Teeter died in 2005, and Sirhan declined other counsel to replace him.
On January 5,2015, Sirhan's motion was denied by US District Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell in Los Angeles, who said that Sirhan "failed to meet the showing required for actual innocence" that might excuse his having failed to seek his freedom sooner in federal court.
In 1971, Sirhan was housed in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison.
Sirhan Sirhan was transferred to the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California, where he was confined until 1992.
On November 22,2013, Sirhan was transferred from Corcoran to Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.
Sirhan Sirhan was taken to a hospital, where his condition was reported as stable.
Sirhan Sirhan returned to the prison two days later, after his discharge from the hospital.
Mehdi, Sirhan claimed that his actions were fueled by liquor and anger and complained that the parole board was not taking these "mitigating" circumstances into account when it continually denied his parole.
Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole again in 2016, at his 15th parole hearing.
One of Sirhan's shooting victims from that night, Paul Schrade, aged 91 at the time of the hearing, testified in his support, stating his belief that a second shooter killed Kennedy and that Sirhan was intended to be a distraction from the real gunman by an unknown conspiracy.
Rory Kennedy wrote a guest essay in the New York Times saying that Sirhan did not deserve parole, citing his lack of remorse and unwillingness to accept responsibility.