This picture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talking to campaign workers was made minutes before he was shot early today in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel)Robert F. Kennedy, as Democratic presidential candidate, delivering speech at Ambassador Hotel moments before he was shot and killed in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 1968. (Credit: AP)
COALINGA, Calif. (AP) –– A California parole board has denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy’s convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan.
The decision came Wednesday after a hearing before a California parole board at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga.
The 66-year-old Sirhan says he doesn’t remember shooting Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4, 1968.
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