LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy serving a life sentence for the 1968 murder, will face a parole board on Wednesday for the 14th time.

The Palestinian-born Sirhan, 66, is imprisoned at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California, and that is where the hearing will occur.
Sirhan was wrestled to the ground with a gun in his hand after Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the night Kennedy won the California Democratic presidential primary.
Sirhan, who immigrated with his family to the United States as a child, was initially sentenced to death for the assassination of the senator, brother to slain President John F. Kennedy.
But Sirhan's death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972, after the California Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional.
At a 2003 hearing where he was denied parole for the 12th time, a state Board of Prison Terms panel found Sirhan's anger and ability to cope had worsened, and that he would pose a risk to society if released. He was again denied parole in 2006.
William F. Pepper is an attorney for Sirhan. Pepper previously represented James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Pepper has suggested Sirhan was brainwashed to target Kennedy. “There is no question he was hypno-programed,” Pepper told ABCNews.com this week.
But at his trial, Sirhan declared that he killed Kennedy “with 20 years of malice aforethought.” His motive is said to have been anger about U.S. policy in the Middle East.
In 2009, the Ambassador Hotel where Kennedy was shot was turned into a school named after the senator from New York.