Today the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, denied parole to RFK murderer Sirhan B. Sirhan, who has been in prison for over fifty years in connection with the assassination. This was in the news because two of RFK's children had supported his parole while almost all of the rest of them, plus RFK's widow, Ethel, were adamantly opposed.
A snip of what Newsom had to say when he denied Sirhan parole:
California’s Board of Parole Hearings recently found that Sirhan is suitable for parole. I disagree. After carefully reviewing the case, including records in the California State Archives, I have determined that Sirhan has not developed the accountability and insight required to support his safe release into the community. I must reverse Sirhan’s parole grant.
Kennedy’s assassination not only changed the course of this nation and robbed the world of a promising young leader, it also left his 11 children without a father and his wife without a husband. Kennedy’s family bears his loss every day. Millions of Americans lost a unifier in a time of national turmoil and grief, just nine weeks after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and four-and-a-half years after the murder of Kennedy’s brother, President John F. Kennedy.
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