Robert Kennedy murder isn't recollected by Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Sirhan was convicted over forty years back of murdering Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan has no recollection of killing Kennedy whatsoever. Sirhan was apprehended at the scene by bystanders, who wrestled his gun from him after he had fired all of his ammunition. His lawyer claims he was brainwashed into committing the criminal offense.

Attorney implies Sirhan was brainwashed

At a forthcoming parole listening to, the attorney representing found guilty murderer Sirhan Sirhan will argue that Sirhan was the target of brainwashing, which led his client to assassinate Robert F. Kennedy, in accordance with MSNBC. Sirhan was found guilty of the 1968 assassination of Kennedy, younger brother to President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General during the JFK administration. The brainwashing scheme that happened was something that Sirhan's lawyer, William F. Pepper, compared to the movie "The Manchurian Candidate." This was about a man that assassinates a politician after being brainwashed. Pepper maintains the conditioning Sirhan received resulted in Sirhan shooting Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in LA in June of 1968.

Not having any recollection that the Kennedy shooting happened

Sirhan said for a long time that he didn't even recall Robert Kennedy getting shot. The Daily Mail reports that while referencing the Six Days War of 1967 which Kennedy supported Israel in, Sirhan said that he did the criminal offense "for my country" "with 20 years of malice aforethought" in his trial. Originally, he got sentenced to death. It did not happen though since the death penalty was opposed by the Kennedy family. After the Supreme Court case Furman vs. Georgia made it so the death penalty was not allowed in the nation from 1972 to 1976, he got sentenced to life in prison.

Not trying to get parole

Sirhan Sirhan has not been very proactive in pursuing parole. He will not send out counsel sometimes while he shows up to hearings hardly ever with a lawyer sent. It has been extremely hard to prove innocence or get him released. Not showing up tends to do that to a person. Sirhan was wrestled to the ground by hotel staff and several Kennedy supporters, including journalist George Plimpton and Olympic athlete Rafer Johnson, while nevertheless firing his revolver.

Information from

MSNBC

msnbc.msn.com/id/41822218/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

Daily Mail

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361455/Robert-Kennedy-assassin-Sirhan-Bishara-claims-I-brainwashed-freedom-bid.html