--- title: Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time description: Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan, opposed Kennedy's support for Israel canonical: https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T12:21:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:56:24.619Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time og:description: Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan, opposed Kennedy's support for Israel og:url: https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c221c1d212762b8/69887cf1f887dc7a03e948c1/sirhan-sirhan-robert-f-kennedy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sirhan Sirhan, Russell E. Parsons og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time twitter:description: Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan, opposed Kennedy's support for Israel twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c221c1d212762b8/69887cf1f887dc7a03e948c1/sirhan-sirhan-robert-f-kennedy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time by [Alex Johnson/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Johnson/NBC News Feb 10, 2016 12:21 PM CUT  In this June 1968 file photo, Sirhan Sirhan, right, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is seen with his attorney Russell E. Parsons in Los Angeles. In this June 1968 file photo, Sirhan Sirhan, right, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is seen with his attorney Russell E. Parsons in Los Angeles.AP by [Alex Johnson/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Johnson/NBC News Feb 10, 2016 12:21 PM CUT Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin will seek parole for the 14th time Wednesday morning — almost 48 years after he shot and killed the Democratic senator for New York. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after he’d won the state’s Democratic presidential primary. The younger brother of President John F. Kennedy died the next day. Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Christian-born Palestinian from Jordan who opposed Kennedy’s support for Israel, was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand and later convicted of the killing. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sirhan-sirhan-robert-kennedy-s-assassin-seek-parole-14th-time-n515056?cid=par-time%5F20160210 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/"},"headline":"Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time","datePublished":"2016-02-10T12:21:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:56:24.619Z","description":"Sirhan B. Sirhan opposed Kennedy's support for Israel","url":"https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c221c1d212762b8/69887cf1f887dc7a03e948c1/sirhan-sirhan-robert-f-kennedy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Johnson/NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c221c1d212762b8/69887cf1f887dc7a03e948c1/sirhan-sirhan-robert-f-kennedy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sirhan Sirhan, Russell E. Parsons","caption":"In this June 1968 file photo, Sirhan Sirhan, right, the assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is seen with his attorney Russell E. Parsons in Los Angeles.","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4215249/sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassin-parole/","name":"Robert Kennedy's Assassin to Seek Parole for 14th Time"}}]}] ```