Standing 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) and weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) at age 20, Sirhan moved to Corona to train to be a jockey while working at a stable, but lost his job and abandoned the pursuit after suffering a head injury in a racing accident. Shortly after the family's move to California, Bishara returned alone to the Middle East. He attended Eliot Junior High School, John Muir High School, and Pasadena City College. When Sirhan was 12 years old, his family emigrated to the U.S., moving briefly to New York and then to California. According to his mother, Sirhan was traumatized as a child by the violence he witnessed in the Arab–Israeli conflict, including the death of his older brother, who was run over by a military vehicle that was swerving to evade gunfire. Sirhan Sirhan was born into an Arab Palestinian Christian family in Mandatory Palestine, in Jerusalem's Musrara neighborhood, and became a Jordanian citizen after Jordan annexed the West Bank. He was denied parole again on March 1, 2023. On January 13, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom blocked Sirhan's release on parole. Prosecutors declined to participate or to oppose his release under a policy by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. On August 27, 2021, after years of being denied parole, he was granted parole by a two-person panel of the California parole board. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, California. Sirhan was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. stemming from the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in the Middle East. In 1989, he told David Frost: "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 fighter jets to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians." Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the U.S. Sirhan was born to an Arab Christian family in Jerusalem, where he attended a Lutheran school. Kennedy, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles Kennedy died the next day at Good Samaritan Hospital. Sirhan shot Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of President John F.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan ( / s ɪər ˈ h ɑː n/ Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان, romanized: Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān, born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who was convicted of the Jassassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, Californiaįirst-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder (5 counts) ĭeath in 1969 commuted in 1972 to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole
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