COALINGA, Calif. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, makes a plea for freedom Wednesday before a California parole board after more than four decades behind bars.
It’s the latest of more than a dozen such hearings and his first in five years.
The board, meeting at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, will decide whether Sirhan has expressed responsibility and remorse for the crime, and whether he remains a threat.
The 66-year-old Sirhan says he doesn’t remember shooting Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4, 1968. The senator had just claimed victory in the California presidential primary.
