| The California parole board panel's decision comes more than 50 years after Sirhan was arrested and convicted of assassinating Kennedy, then a U.S. senator who appeared headed for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The panel's decision will be reviewed by the full parole board for 90 days before it is final. Then California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will have 30 days to uphold the decision, reverse it or send it back to the board. Sirhan is now 77. | 
