Robert Kennedy's killer Sirhan Sirhan is denied parole

LONDON. March 3. KAZINFORM The man who assassinated US Democratic senator and presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy has been denied parole; Kazinform refers to BBC News.

Sirhan Sirhan says he does not remember shooting Kennedy at a Los Angeles hotel in 1968 on the day he won the California Democratic presidential primary.

Sirhan, a Palestinian Christian, was convicted in 1969 of murder.

The California parole board said it was his 13th effort to win release; he will be considered again in five years.

Early in the morning of 6 June 1968, Kennedy had narrowly won the Democratic presidential primary election in California.

After giving a victory speech to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel, Kennedy entered the kitchen to exit the hotel when six shots rang out, fatally wounding him. Five others were injured but survived; Kazinform cites BBC News.

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