US parole board votes to release Robert F Kennedy’s assassin

The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole Friday. A parole board in San Diego voted to release Sirhan Sirhan on his 16th attempt at getting out of prison. Kennedy, the younger brother of slain president John F Kennedy, was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination to follow in the family footsteps when he was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel. His murder came just months after the killing of Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, and as a divided America was deep in an unpopular war in Vietnam.