RFK assassin moved on anniversary of JFK assassination

As the nation honored the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, another Kennedy brother's assassin was transferred from one Calif. prison to another.

The California Department of Corrections confirmed to CBS that Sirhan Sirhan, the man who killed Robert Kennedy in 1968, was moved from a California prison in the Central Valley to a facility in San Diego.


Sirhan Sirhan was convicted for the assassination of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

On Friday, he was moved from Corcoran State Prison to the Richard J. Donovan Correction Facility in San Diego.

A spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation offered this statement:

"As a routine matter of housing allotments,  Sirhan Sirhan was moved from Corcoran State Prison to the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County today.  The date of the move is simply an unfortunate coincidence.  Any number of Inmates are moved from institution to institution on any given day as necessary."