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Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Robert Kennedy in 1968, saving him from a humiliating election defeat by Richard Nixon that would have forever changed American political life. Today Sirhan was granted parole.
— Read the restTwo of Kennedy's surviving sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.