Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy
was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the
California presidential primary.
Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that
the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy
was shot several times by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
Robert Kennedy was pronounced dead a day later, June 6, 1968.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan turned 80 in March.
At Sirhan’s 17th parole board appearance on March 1, 2023, he
was again denied parole. He has waived his right to contest
deportation if he is paroled.