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Kennedy cousin whose murder conviction was overturned sues former cop, CT town
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other claimed wrongdoing. Skakel, 63, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, was found guilty in 2002 of the 1975…
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California Board Denies Parole for RFK Assassin, Sirhan Sirhan
A California panel has denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan’s lawyer Angela Berry says the parole board decided the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968.
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Man Injured in RFK Assassination, Who Believed in 2nd Shooter Theory, Dies
Paul Schrade, a labor union leader who was shot in the head during the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and spent decades convinced that Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t the killer, has died.