Sirhan Sirihan granted parole

[sheepdawg]

And it was the Kennedys that asked for it. Would they have gone to bat for Lee Harvey Oswald if not for Jack Ruby.

Far as I'm concerned the last thing he should have heard were the cyanide pellets hitting the acid

 

[cougar14]

He says he can't remember shooting Kennedy. I have a hard time believing you can purposefully shoot someone in the head and not remember it.

 

[Onomea]

While I am not a conspiracy theory adherent, I am starting wonder a bit about this assassination:

...Though Sirhan admitted at his trial in 1969 that he shot Kennedy, he claimed from the start that he had no memory of doing so. And midway through Sirhan's trial, prosecutors provided his lawyers with an autopsy report that launched five decades of controversy: Kennedy was shot at point-blank range from behind, including a fatal shot behind his ear. But Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, was standing in front of him..."

...Sirhan's appeals have been rejected at every level, as recently as 2016, even with the courts considering new evidence that has emerged over the years that as many as 13 shots were fired — Sirhan's gun held only eight bullets — and that Sirhan may have been subjected to coercive hypnosis, in a real-life version of "The Manchurian Candidate."...

...Several other witnesses also said he was not close enough to place the gun against Kennedy's back, where famed Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi found powder burns on the senator's jacket and on his hair, indicating shots fired at close contact. These witnesses provided more proof for those who insist a second gunman was involved...."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...n-rfk-jr-doesnt-believe-it-was-sirhan-sirhan/

 

[quikdraw67]

And it was the Kennedys that asked for it. Would they have gone to bat for Lee Harvey Oswald if not for Jack Ruby.

Far as I'm concerned the last thing he should have heard were the cyanide pellets hitting the acid

Yep.

Him and the entire Manson family.

At least they kept Charles Manson in stir until he attained room temperature.

 

[dsf]

I'd have been content for Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer, James Earl Ray, Byron DeLaBeckwith and John Hinkley to have all been put to death. Something is not quite right when a country allows its leaders to be shot down. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with them.

BTW, LA DA George Gascon is one of the "progressive" DAs now fashionable in CA and a few other states.

 

[jag312]

Absolutely disgusting.

 

[Erich]

I'm not sure I could care less. I wasn't there, I have no idea what really happened and it didn't concern me. I was, what ... TWO? when it happened and I'm retired now. It's God's world: let Him judge and mete out any appropriate further punishment.


I'm going to enjoy the good in the world, myself...
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[Rustyt1953]

I'm going to enjoy the good in the world...
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Another bumper sticker candidate.

 

[Benchrest1]

He should never see the light of day.

 

[DWalt]

I am interested only because of the unusual and incompletely understood circumstances surrounding the event. I always believed that there was much more to the story.

 

[cougar14]

It seems like if there was a conspiracy, he would have been a "loose end". Like Lee Harvey. And the same thing would have happened to him.

 

[BigBoy99]

I bet the Calif. taxpayers are really happy for having to pay is room and board for all these years!

 

[Maddog 521]

I bet they'll be paying his room and board for as long as he lives.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I bet they'll be paying his room and board for as long as he lives.

Yup. I once made a federal public defender mad after he argued that the defendant should be granted probation so the government wouldn't have to pay to house and feed him. I asked "Who's paying for it now?"

 

[Old_Cop]

I bet 80% of Americans could not tell you who Sirhan was.

 

[ol777gunnerz]

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I'd have been content for Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer, James Earl Ray, Byron DeLaBeckwith and John Hinkley to have all been put to death. Something is not quite right when a country allows its leaders to be shot down. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with them.

BTW, LA DA George Gascon is one of the "progressive" DAs now fashionable in CA and a few other states.

Even Martin Luther King's family says Ray did not shoot him, among some prominent investigators as well.

 

[F4phantom]

I was in the holding area in DaNang when we heard of over Armed Forces Radio that Bobby Kennedy was killed. Just when we thought we were coming home to a sane country. Mixed feelings, leaning toward leaving him in jail for the rest of his life.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Help me out. Is there any prominent public figure assassination that people believe was actually carried out by the person publicly accused of said deed? I can't seem to find one . . .

 

[k22fan]

Help me out. Is there any prominent public figure assassination that people believe was actually carried out by the person publicly accused of said deed? I can't seem to find one . . .

The young man who shot Ronald Regan. I'm happy to have forgotten his name.

BTW, he was let out.

However, you did make a good point.

 

[bullmack]

His parole isn't final. There are more hoops to go through - this was step one, but a big one.