![]() ![]() ![]() Pepper said everyone had told him he was guilty, even his own lawyers. Prizmich asked why during his trial Sirhan made self incriminating statements. He has said he believes a second gunman was involved and Sirhan may have been brainwashed. Pepper, told the panel he took on Sirhan’s case after his former lawyer died because he became convinced that Sirhan did not fire the fatal shot. Kennedy.Īt that point, Sirhan interjected, “That’s not my responsibility.” He noted the impact on the Kennedy family, which had endured another tragedy five years before with the killing of President John F. “The magnitude of this crime is one that a nation mourned over, and from that day on, politicians changed the way they interacted with people,” Prizmich said. “I want to live, get lost in the woodwork and live out my life with my community,” he said.īut the panel chairman, Mike Prizmich, and the deputy commissioner, Randy Kevorkian, told Sirhan he must seek further self-help courses, come to terms with the shooting and show evidence of his improvement by his next parole hearing, which would be in five years. He said no one in his family is involved in politics and he suggested he wouldn’t be either if he was released. He pleaded with the panel to give him a release date, saying he was willing to accept deportation to his native Jordan. The two-member panel of the California parole board determined that Kennedy’s convicted assassin hadn’t shown enough remorse and didn’t understand the severity of a crime that was mourned by a nation four decades ago. ![]() He said a psychologist told him years ago to stop dwelling on it or he would never heal. “Every day of my life, I have great remorse and deep regret,” he told the panel at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga. Sirhan said he underwent hypnosis at his lawyer’s behest but still did not remember shooting Kennedy or five other victims in the crowded kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles where Kennedy stood moments after claiming victory in the California presidential primary. “I don’t remember anything very clearly….I’m not trying to evade anything.” Everything was always hazy in my head,” Sirhan said. I don’t remember aiming it at any human being. “I don’t remember pulling a gun from my body. history more than 40 years ago.ĭuring four intense hours Wednesday in a prison’s small hearing room, Sirhan told board officials of his regret but also said he could not remember the events of June 5, 1968. Kennedy’s death and doesn’t understand the enormity of the assassination that changed U.S. – Parole officials have refused to give Sirhan Sirhan a date with freedom, saying he hasn’t shown sufficient remorse for Sen. ![]()
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