</s>United Press International Sirhan Sirhan is taken out of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after shooting of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Warren Commission investigated JFK's assassination, while the Los Angeles Police Department led the investigation into RFK's death. Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing RFK but had his sentence commuted to life. James Earl Ray was convicted of killing MLK and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

A court ruling revealed that Sirhan had been involved in a crime as a juvenile and was ordered deported under federal statutes dealing with marijuana possession. The government asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to proceed with the deportation of Munir Bishara Sirhan, brother of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's convicted assassin, citing immigration laws.

The trial of the murder case was held in a courtroom where security was over, with the right side reserved for the Compton police and the left side for the Los Angeles Police Department. The defendant's lawyer argued that his client had been unfairly treated and that the prosecution's evidence was not sufficient to prove guilt.

Sirhan Sirhan began a hunger strike in his death row cell at San Quentin State Prison, while his mother visited him and brought a rock from the prison where her son sits condemned.

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