RFK Dies from Assassination Wounds: Shot the Night Before After Winning California
Sirhan Sirhan opened fire in a crowded kitchen passageway after Robert F. Kennedy took a shortcut through The Ambassador Hotel, killing the senator and wounding five others just hours before he was to accept the Democratic nomination. This assassination extinguished a rising political force that promised to reshape the party's direction on the Vietnam War and civil rights, leaving Lyndon B. Johnson without a viable rival for the 1968 election.
June 6, 1968
58 years ago
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