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Los Angeles (AFP) – The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole Friday. Sirhan Sirhan, now 77, had tried on 15 previous occasions to be released from the life sentence imposed five decades earlier. The vote on Friday by a two-person panel of the California parole board does not mean that Sirhan will automatically be released. The decision is subject to a three-month review, and then ultimately passes to Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who faces a recall vote in September. Kennedy, the younger brother of slain …