Board recommends parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan on 16th attempt

[Dan From Smithville]

Sirhan Sirhan: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin recommended for parole - CNN

Found this interesting piece of news just a bit ago. I am too young to remember the event. Still, it has been a reverberating topic for more than 50 years.

I am not sure what danger he would represent at 77, but his fate and release is in the hands of governor of California now apparently.

 

[Stevicus]

Sirhan Sirhan: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin recommended for parole - CNN

Found this interesting piece of news just a bit ago. I am too young to remember the event. Still, it has been a reverberating topic for more than 50 years.

I am not sure what danger he would represent at 77, but his fate and release is in the hands of governor of California now apparently.

I noticed this, too. I'm not sure what he would do if he's paroled. Where would he go? How would he live? Would he even be safe? Some people who are still upset about what he did might go after him.

 

[Viker]

Wow. I haven't kept up with anything much in the past few years. I would have assumed he had already died in prison. RFK's sons seem to support release. 53 years is a long enough time to grow.

 

[Stevicus]

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if RFK had not been assassinated. With LBJ bowing out, RFK's popularity might have given him the nomination and possibly the presidency. Instead, the '68 Democratic Convention was marred by violence and the nomination of VP Hubert Humphrey, who had to carry all of LBJ's baggage into the election. Cleared the way for Richard Nixon.

Sirhan Sirhan was originally sentenced to death, but all death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 after a ruling by the California Supreme Court.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think life in prison is appropriate.

 

[Estro Felino]

Both brothers were killed by the same criminal minds.
The best president America has ever had and his brother. R.I.P John and Robert.

 

[Estro Felino]

I think life in prison is appropriate.

After all this guy was just a hitman.
His clients were never arrested.

 

[Estro Felino]

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if RFK had not been assassinated. With LBJ bowing out, RFK's popularity might have given him the nomination and possibly the presidency. Instead, the '68 Democratic Convention was marred by violence and the nomination of VP Hubert Humphrey, who had to carry all of LBJ's baggage into the election. Cleared the way for Richard Nixon.

Sirhan Sirhan was originally sentenced to death, but all death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 after a ruling by the California Supreme Court.

We all think that. He would have become president.

 

[Revoltingest]

After all this guy was just a hitman.
His clients were never arrested.

I don't see being a hitman as a mitigating circumstance.
Might even be the best reason to keep'm there.

 

[Estro Felino]

Let him reveal the names of the people who hired him to kill RK.
And then...maybe...he will have parole.

 

[Estro Felino]

I don't see being a hitman as a mitigating circumstance.
Might even be the best reason to keep'm there.

It is not a mitigating circumstance.
He hasnt clarified yet how he knew that Robert Kennedy had decided to go through the kitchens to avoid the press.
Maybe he had the gift of clairvoyance?

 

[Revoltingest]

It is not a mitigating circumstance.
He hasnt clarified yet how he knew that Robert Kennedy had decided to go through the kitchens ti avoid the press.
Maybe he had the gift of clairvoyance?

Unless there's some real question of his guilt,
then I say life in prison.

 

[Estro Felino]

Then I say life in prison.

Ditto.

 

[John53]

I watched a show on the ageing prison population in America, it was very sad.

Should prisoners who are serving life that develop dementia be kept behind bars if they have no memory of the crime?

 

[Stevicus]

Let him reveal the people who hired him to kill RK.
And then...maybe...he will have parole.

Yes, there's still some lingering questions about the assassination of RFK, along with the murders of JFK and MLK. I don't really know who or what may have been behind it - or if the purported shooters acted alone. There was a lot of political violence and hatred which were prevalent during that decade. A lot of people didn't like the Kennedys for their stance on civil rights, and Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader, who was assassinated along with many other civil rights activists of the era.

They were also anti-war, and that also ruffled quite a few people's feathers. J. Edgar Hoover hated the Kennedys and Martin Luther King.

JFK also had some possible Mob ties, and RFK was actively pursuing the Mob during his tenure as attorney general.

Some have even suggested the possibility that the Soviets or Castro may have been behind it, but if the truth were found out, it could lead to a war, possibly even a nuclear war.

 

[Truthseeker]

Sirhan Sirhan: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin recommended for parole - CNN

Found this interesting piece of news just a bit ago. I am too young to remember the event. Still, it has been a reverberating topic for more than 50 years.

I am not sure what danger he would represent at 77, but his fate and release is in the hands of governor of California now apparently.

My God, he doesn't look like the same person I saw 53 years ago! He's Palestinian, you know. He supported Robert Kennedy until he heard Robert supported Israel. I saw with my own eyes just before I went to bed Robert Kennedy giving a victory speech after he won the California primary. I didn't know until the next morning that he had been shot in the head shortly after that and like Abraham Lincoln he didn't live long after that. That shot may have changed history. Imagine President Robert Kennedy! Instead we ended with Richard Nixon and Watergate. The Kennedy curse in action again.

 

[Truthseeker]

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if RFK had not been assassinated. With LBJ bowing out, RFK's popularity might have given him the nomination and possibly the presidency. Instead, the '68 Democratic Convention was marred by violence and the nomination of VP Hubert Humphrey, who had to carry all of LBJ's baggage into the election. Cleared the way for Richard Nixon.

Sirhan Sirhan was originally sentenced to death, but all death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 after a ruling by the California Supreme Court.

More good info from the past. I think you were there too.

 

[Estro Felino]

Yes, there's still some lingering questions about the assassination of RFK, along with the murders of JFK and MLK. I don't really know who or what may have been behind it - or if the purported shooters acted alone. There was a lot of political violence and hatred which were prevalent during that decade. A lot of people didn't like the Kennedys for their stance on civil rights, and Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader, who was assassinated along with many other civil rights activists of the era.

They were also anti-war, and that also ruffled quite a few people's feathers. J. Edgar Hoover hated the Kennedys and Martin Luther King.

JFK also had some possible Mob ties, and RFK was actively pursuing the Mob during his tenure as attorney general.

Some have even suggested the possibility that the Soviets or Castro may have been behind it, but if the truth were found out, it could lead to a war, possibly even a nuclear war.

Honestly I don't think the Soviets or Castro were interested in the two Kennedys' death.

RFK was fighting the mafia and the connections between mafia and politics. The Kennedys supported the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement.
One just puts two and two together.
In the other thread I showed a document that proves Ruby had been hired by LBJ.
And btw...he was a former delinquent and a night club owner.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I remember the incident, being 22 at the time, but not half as much as his brother's murder. Does the importance of an individual count as to what punishment any perpetrator gets?

 

[Estro Felino]

I remember the incident, being 22 at the time, but not half as much as his brother's murder. Does the importance of an individual count as to what punishment any perpetrator gets?

Did he repent?
As far as I remember, he even denies he did it.
With all the cameras filming it...