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On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters ...
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In 1967, antiwar activists urged RFK to mount a primary bid against Lyndon Johnson, but Kennedy refused. On March 16, 1968, however—four days after Sen. Eugene McCarthy nearly defeated LBJ in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary—Robert Kennedy declared that he, too, was seeking the Democratic nomination. His announcement speechmade clear that his cam...
The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, altered Kennedy’s campaign agenda and his national political identity. The combination of Johnson’s withdrawal and King’s assassination elevated Kennedy as a leader in the struggle to tamp down the divisive forces that were fraying the social fabric. As riots erupted in more than 100 cities, ...
Kennedy’s campaign stop in working-class white districts in Indiana—including areas where the segregationist Alabama governor George Wallacehad done well in 1964—showcased Kennedy’s remarkable appeal across the color line. In his visits, so many supporters shook hands with him that by day’s end they were bloodied. His clothes were torn, his hair jo...
What Kennedy offered was not necessarily centralized government solutions to the nation’s intractable social and economic problems. Rather, he wished to use government to provide “incentives and opportunities,” as one RFK aide put it. “What the people in our ghettos need is…independence, not the charity and favor of their fellow citizens, but equal...
Jun 6, 2018 · Many analysts believe JFK’s assassination staggered Robert Kennedy so forcefully that his own vulnerability transformed him into an advocate of the disadvantaged.
- Alice George
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection. The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection is the world’s largest, most complete compilation of materials relating to this event.
Jun 19, 2018 · On June 5, 1968, having won the Democratic Party presidential primary in California, Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a victory speech to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Just after 12:15 am (Pacific daylight savings time), a lone assassin shot Kennedy 3 times at point-blank range.
- Jordan M. Komisarow, Theodore Pappas, Megan Llewellyn, Shivanand P. Lad
- 2019
Robert F. Kennedy's voice. Kennedy on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Recorded April 4, 1968. Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.
Harry Benson was just a few yards away from Bobby Kennedy when the presidential hopeful was struck by an assassin’s bullet 50 years ago.
