Bobby Kennedy is assassinated - Jun 05, 1968 - HISTORY.com Bobby Kennedy is assassinated Publisher A+E Networks Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. The summer of 1968 was a tempestuous time in American history. Both the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement were peaking. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in the spring, igniting riots across the country. In the face of this unrest, President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to seek a second term in the upcoming presidential election. Robert Kennedy, John’s younger brother and former U.S. Attorney General, stepped into this breach and experienced a groundswell of support. Kennedy was perceived by many to be the only person in American politics capable of uniting the people. He was beloved by the minority community for his integrity and devotion to the civil rights cause.

After winning California’s primary, Kennedy was in the position to receive the Democratic nomination and face off against Richard Nixon in the general election. As star athletes Rafer Johnson and Roosevelt Grier accompanied Kennedy out a rear exit of the Ambassador Hotel, Sirhan Sirhan stepped forward with a rolled up campaign poster, hiding his .22 revolver. He was only a foot away when he fired several shots at Kennedy. Grier and Johnson wrestled Sirhan to the ground, but not before five bystanders were wounded. Grier was distraught afterward and blamed himself for allowing Kennedy to be shot. Sirhan, who was born in Palestine, confessed to the crime at his trial and received a death sentence on March 3, 1969. However, since the California State Supreme Court invalidated all death penalty sentences in 1972, Sirhan has spent the rest of his life in prison. According to the New York Times, he has since said that he believed Kennedy was “instrumental” in the oppression of Palestinians. Hubert Humphrey ended up running for the Democrats in 1968, but lost by a small margin to Nixon. Related Videos June 1968 - Robert F.

Kennedy Assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel | KCET June 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel Elson Trinidad Elson Trinidad is the Managing Editor of KCET's 50th Anniversary website. On KCET.org's blogs, he also writes the "Transpacific Routes" column on the waves and currents of So Cal's Asian/Pacific Islander communities, and the "Concrete and Chaparral" column on our local urban and native ecosystems. 2014-09-24T10:09:00-07:00 Pin on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Robert F. Kennedy shaking hands with students in Garden Grove on June 3, 1968, three days before he died. | Photo: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive /UCLA Library, Digital Collections/ Creative Commons License On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, was shot following a speech at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard.

On the night of June 4, the date of the California primary election, Kennedy addressed supporters at the hotel's Embassy Ballroom, declaring his victory in the primary four hours after polls had closed. Following the speech, he was being led through the kitchen en route to a press conference in another room. While shaking hands with hotel worker Juan Romero, a gunman, later identified as Sirhan Sirhan, repeatedly fired a .22 caliber revolver, wounding Kennedy and five others. Kennedy, shot three times - once in the head and twice in the torso - was rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital near downtown L.A. where he underwent surgery. The senator was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of June 6 from his wounds. Pin on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Sirhan, a 24 year old Palestinian Christian of Jordanian nationality who had lived in Southern California since the age of 12, was convicted of the murder of Kennedy and was originally sentenced to death, but it was later commuted to a life sentence. His motive was believed to have stemmed from a combination of his anti-Zionist political beliefs (reacting to Kennedy's pro-Israel policies) and mental illness.

The 1968 Democratic presidential nomination was won by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who eventually lost to former Vice President Richard Nixon in the November election. In 2005, the Ambassador Hotel was razed to make way for a Los Angeles Unified School District Campus. In 2010 the campus opened as Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, which houses several LAUSD-administered charter and magnet schools. An open space fronting Wilshire Boulevard was dedicated as Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park, serving as a memorial to the senator, his work, and his legacy. In June 1967, Sen. Kennedy appeared in the debut episode of the KCET program, "Struggle for Peace," a series which dealt with the contemporary problems of war and peace in the world. The program's debut examined the military positions of the major world powers. Kennedy was interviewed, along with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and other leading statesmen and militarists. Robert F. Kennedy shot - Jun 05, 1968 - HISTORY.com Robert F. Kennedy shot Publisher A+E Networks At 12:50 a.m. PDT, Senator Robert F.

Kennedy, a presidential candidate, is shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. The shooter, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, had a smoking .22 revolver wrested from his grip and was promptly arrested. Kennedy, critically wounded, was rushed to the hospital, where he fought for his life for the next 24 hours. On the morning of June 6, he died. He was 42 years old. On June 8, Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, also the final resting place of his assassinated older brother, President John F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925, interrupted his studies at Harvard University to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was legal counsel for various Senate subcommittees during the 1950s and in 1960 served as the manager of his brother’s successful presidential campaign.

Appointed attorney general by President Kennedy, he proved a vigorous member of the cabinet, zealously prosecuting cases relating to civil rights while closely advising the president on domestic and foreign issues. After Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, he joined President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration but resigned in 1964 to run successfully in New York for a Senate seat. Known in Congress as an advocate of social reform and defender of the rights of minorities, he also voiced criticism of the war in Vietnam. In 1968, he was urged by many of his supporters to run for president as an anti-war and socially progressive Democratic. Hesitant until he saw positive primary returns for fellow anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on March 16, 1968. Fifteen days later, President Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey became the key Democratic hopeful, with McCarthy and Kennedy trailing closely behind. Kennedy conducted an energetic campaign and on June 4, 1968, won a major victory in the California primary.

He had won five out of six primaries and seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination and, some thought, the presidency. Shortly after midnight, he gave a victory speech to his supporters in the Ambassador Hotel and then, while making his way to a press conference by a side exit, was fatally wounded by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan was arrested at the scene and indicted for first-degree murder. A mentally unstable drifter, his motives in killing Kennedy have never been clear. Some journalists have alleged that Sirhan was part of a larger assassination conspiracy, supposedly brought on by Kennedy’s promise to end the Vietnam War if elected president. These conspiracists cite forensic evidence and witness testimony that they say proves the existence of additional shooters who were not detained. In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted and sentenced to die. In 1972, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty. Since 1983, he has repeatedly been denied parole by prison officials who consider him a serious threat to public safety.

More on This Topic The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures | US news | The Guardian The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures Share on Messenger Close Senator Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968. The Guardian's US correspondent at the time, Alistair Cooke, wrote then of hearing 'a crackle of sharp sounds … An exploded flash bulb maybe, more like a man banging a tray several times against a wall'.

The Guardian is revisiting Cooke's coverage for this newspaper and the BBC on the 90th anniversary of the first regular news broadcasts by the corporation Wednesday 14 November 2012 02.00 EST First published on Wednesday 14 November 2012 02.00 EST Robert F Kennedy greets a crowd from atop a car Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Kennedy talks with reporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968 Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Kennedy stops to speak with a kitchen worker at the hotel Photograph: Bill Eppridge./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Kennedy gave a speech at the hotel shortly before being assassinated Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Kennedy, who is lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the hotel kitchen Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Mourners hold up an American flag as the body of Robert F Kennedy is taken to Arlington national cemetery for burial Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Letters show Guardian editor thanking US correspondent for Robert Kennedy

 coverage, and Cooke criticising rivals' 'flash dubious hard news' Published: 14 Nov 2012 June | The 1968 Exhibit Home | 1968 Timeline | June June Just after winning the Democratic presidential primary in California, New York senator Robert F.

Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, and the nation reels again from "violence shock". Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated - 1968 Year in Review - Audio - UPI.com Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated Published: 1968 Play Audio Archive Story - UPI Clutching his rosary beads, Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies mortally wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel, after being shot by assailant Sirhan Bashira Sirhan on June 5, 1968, following his victory speech in the California primary election. Kennedy's wife Ethel is at lower left. (UPI Photo/Files) Unknown Speaker: "I am announcing today my candidacy of the presidency of the United States." Announcer: After Eugene McCarthy shows strength in New Hampshire Primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy reassessed his position and entered the 1968 race for President. The Kennedy announcement was a political surprise. But it was overshadowed 15 days later when another man informed the country of his decision regarding the presidency. Lyndon Baines Johnson: "I do not believe that I should devote an hour or day of my time to any personal partisan causes.

Accordingly, I shall not see and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President." Announcer: Uplifted by the Johnson announcement, Robert Kennedy set out to make 1968 his most trying year. A year during which he hoped to become the next President of the United States. But a year that for him ended in death. Unknown Speaker: "President Kennedy has been shot, is that possible? Is that possible? It's pathetic. Is that possible ladies and gentlemen. It is possible, he has. Not only Senator Kennedy, oh my God. Senator Kennedy has been shot and another man, a Kennedy Campaign Manager impossibly shot in the head. I am right here Raefer Johnson has a hold of a man who apparently has fired the shot." Announcer: United Press International’s review of the news of 1968 will continue after this message. Radio newsman Andrew West was covering the California Primary for the Mutual Broadcasting System. He was following Senator Kennedy out of the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The Senator exited the hotel through the kitchen, Andrew West followed. He heard the shots and instinctively turned on his tape recorder.

Andrew West: "He has still has the gun, the gun is pointed at me at this moment. I hope they can get the gun out of his hand. Be very careful! Get the gun, get the gun, get the gun. Look, stay away from the gun. Stay away from the gun. His hand is frozen. Get his thumb, Get his thumb, Get his thumb. Get the whole of his thumb and break it if you have to, get his fast. Get away from the barrel, get away from the barrel, man! That's it Raefer, get it! Get the gun Raefer. Okay, now hold on to the guy, hold on to him. Hold on, ladies and gentlemen, they have the gun away from the man. They've got the gun, I can't see, I can't see the man. I can't see who it is. Senator Kennedy right now is on the ground, he has been shot, you will not know if the Senator is dead or if he is alive." Announcer: The next day the Senator’s Press Secretary informed the stunned nation of Kennedy’s death.

Unknown Speaker: "Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 AM today, June 6, 1968. He was 42-years-old." Announcer: The streets of New York were filled with mourners. Thousands and thousands passed to touch his casket which lay in state at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. They came and they waited for hours to pay their final respect. Unknown Speaker 1: "I feel a very deep emotion today. Mr. Kennedy was... I really can't talk, I am sorry!" Unknown Speaker 2: "We may be in this line for quite some time, does that upset you terribly?" Unknown Speaker 1: "Oh no, it took me up close to 14 years to become an American citizen and he was a big inspiration in it for me and my sister. I'm sorry!" Announcer: Ted Kennedy, the last surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy eulogized his brother. Ted Kennedy: "Those of us who lived him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass through all the world.

As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him . “'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'” Announcer: As the body of Senator Kennedy was carried out, Singer Andy Williams filled the cathedral with the sound of ahem that was relevant and stirring. Soon the crowd of mourners joined spontaneously, and the great room was heavy with song. And at Arlington National Cemetery, Robert Kennedy’s body was lowered into a grave and they are a few feet away a flickering yellow flame marked the grave site of is brother, the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy whose life too was ended with an assassin’s bullet.

Kennedy is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence Kennedy is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence Surgery in Vain President Calls Death Tragedy, Proclaims a Day of Mourning Arab Arraigned; $250,000 Bail Set By GLADWIN HILL Special to The New York Times RELATED HEADLINES A Pall Over Politics: Murder Raises Grave Questions for Presidency Races Now and in Future Notes On Kennedy In Suspect's Home: Cite 'Necessity' to Murder Senator Before June 5, Anniversary of War Father of Suspect 'Sickened' by News OTHER HEADLINES Marcus Testifies De Sapio Had Role In A Con Ed Deal: Says Itkin Sought Delay of Permit to Aid Own Scheme With Ex-Tammany-Head Transit Package Submitted to City: M.T.A. Seeks Approval of 8 New Subway Routes Jerusalem Police Clash With Arabs: Israelis Halt Procession on Anniversary of War--U.N.

Council Meets on Fighting France Will Meet Tariff Deadline; Strikes Dwindling 6 In Race Guarded: Secret Service Given Campaign Security Task by President Hanoi Insists U.S. Halt Its Bombing: Aides Call Talks Response to Johnson--Suspicion Voiced of a Plot Against Kennedy Italy's Cabinet Quits As Parliament Opens Big Board Weighs 4 Special Closings Los Angeles, Thursday, June 6--Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of a murdered President, died at 1:44 A.M. today of an assassin's shots. The New York Senator was wounded more than 20 hours earlier, moments after he had made his victory statement in the California primary. At his side when he died today in Good Samaritan Hospital were his wife Ethel; his sisters, Mrs. Stephen Smith and Mrs. Patricia Lawford; his bother-in-law, Stephen Smith; and his sister-in-law, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, whose husband was assassinated 4 1/2 years ago in Dallas. In Washington, President Johnson issued a statement calling the death a tragedy. He proclaimed next Sunday a national day of mourning.

The Final Report Hopes had risen slightly when more than eight hours went by without a new medical bulletin on the stricken Senator, but the grimness of the final announcement was signaled when Frank Mankiewicz, Mr. Kennedy's press secretary, walked slowly down the street in front of the hospital toward the littered gymnasium that served as press headquarters. Mr. Mankiewicz bit his lip. His shoulders slumped. He stepped to a lectern in front of a green-tinted chalkboard and bowed his head for a moment while the television lights snapped on. Then, at one minute before 2 A.M., he told of the death of Mr. Kennedy. Following is the text of the statement from Mr. Mankiewicz: "I have a short announcement to read which I will read at this time. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 A.M. today, June 6, 1968. With Senator Kennedy at the time of his death was his wife, Ethel; his sisters, Mrs. Patricia Lawford and Mrs. Stephen Smith, his brother-in-law, Stephen Smith and his sister-in-law, Mrs. John F. Kennedy.

"He was 42 years old." Senator Kennedy's body will be taken to New York this morning and then to Washington. The man accused of shooting Mr. Kennedy early yesterday in a pantry of the Ambassador Hotel was identified as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 24 years old, who was born in Palestinian Jerusalem of Arab parentage and had lived in the Los Angeles area since 1957. Sirhan had been a clerk. $250,000 Bail Yesterday, he was hurried through an early-morning court arraignment and held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Sirhan was charged with six counts of assault with intent to murder, an offense involving a prison term of 1 to 14 years. Five other persons in addition to the 42-year-old Senator were wounded by the eight bullets from a .22-caliber revolver fired at almost point-blank range into a throng of Democratic rally celebrants surging between ballrooms in the hotel. The shots came moments after Senator Kennedy had made a speech celebrating his victory in yesterday's Democratic Presidential primary in California. The defendant, seized moments after the shooting, refused to give the police any information about himself.

He was arraigned as "John Doe." Three hours later, Mayor Samuel W. Yorty announced at a news conference at police headquarters that the defendant had been identified as Sirhan. He said the identity had been confirmed by Sirhan's brother and a second individual. Senator Kennedy, accompanied by his wife, Ethel, was wheeled into the Good Samaritan Hospital shortly after 1 A.M. yesterday after a brief stop at the Central Receiving Hospital. A score of the Senator's campaign aides swarmed around the scene. Grim Reminder Less than five years back many of them had experienced the similar tragedy that ended the life of President John F. Kennedy. At 2:22 A.M., Senator Kennedy's campaign press secretary, Frank Mankiewicz, came out of the hospital into a throng of hundreds of news people to announce that the Senator would be taken into surgery "in five or ten minutes" for an operation of "45 minutes or an hour." One bullet had gone into the Senator's brain past the mastoid bone back of the right ear, with some fragments going near the brain stem. Another bullet lodged in the back of the neck. A third and minor wound was an abrasion on the forehead.

It was after 7 A.M. when Mr. Mankiewicz reported that more than three hours of surgery had been completed, and all but one fragment of the upper bullet had been removed. The neck bullet was not removed but "is not regarded as a major problem," Mr. Mankiewicz said. He also reported that the Senator's vital signs remained about as they had been, except that he was now breathing on his own, which he had not been doing before the surgery. Then Mr. Mankiewicz said: "There may have been an impairment of the blood supply to the mid-brain, which the doctors explained as governing certain of the vital signs--heart, eye track, level of consciousness--although not directly the thinking process." Senator Kennedy was taken from surgery to an intensive-care unit. At 2:15 P.M. Mr. Mankiewicz announced that Senator Kennedy had not regained consciousness and that a series of medical tests had been "inconclusive and don't show measurable improvement in Senator Kennedy's condition." "His condition as of 1:30 P.M. remains extremely critical," the spokesman continued.

"His life forces--pulse, temperature, blood pressure and heart--remain good, and he continues to show the ability to breathe on his own, although he is being assisted by a resuscitator." The tests included X-rays and electroencephalograms. Mrs. Kennedy remained at the hospital. Mrs. John F. Kennedy arrived at the hospital at 7:30 P.M. yesterday, after a chartered plane flight from New York. A team of surgeons treating Senator Kennedy included Dr. James Poppen, head of neurosurgery at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. He was rushed to Los Angeles in an Air Force plane on instructions from Vice President Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey and Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota have been Senator Kennedy's rivals in the Democratic Presidential competition. Mayor Yorty said the defendant's identification had come through a brother, Adel Sirhan, after the police had traced the ownership of the .22-caliber revolver involved in the shooting to a third brother, Munir Bishari Salameh Sirhan, also known as Joe Sirhan.

The weapon was traced through three owners, one in suburban Alabama, the next in Marin County, adjacent to San Francisco, and back to an 18-year-old youth in suburban Pasadena. The youth said he had sold it to "a bushy-haired guy named Joe" whom he knew only as an employee of a Pasadena department store. Detectives identified the bushy haired man as Munir Sirhan. From him, the trail led to the two other brothers, who have been living together in Pasadena. The snubnosed .22-caliber Iver Johnson Cadet model revolver seized after the shooting was described as having been picked out of a list of 2.5 million weapons registered in California in "just seconds" after the disclosure of its serial number. This was done by a new computer used by the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification in Sacramento, according to State Attorney General Thomas Lynch. The defendant was arraigned at 7 A.M., unusually early, before Municipal Judge Joan Dempsey Klein on a complaint issued by District Attorney Evelle Younger after all-night consultation with the police. Deputy District Attorney William Ritzi said the case would be presented to the county grand jury on Friday.

The other victims of the shooting were Paul Schrade, 43 years old, a regional director of the United Automobile and Aerospace Workers Union, a prominent Kennedy campaigner; William Weisel, 30, a unit manager for the American Broadcasting Company; Ira Goldstein, 19, an employee of Continental New Service at nearby Sherman Oaks; Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, 43, of Sangus, in Los Angeles County, and Irwin Stroll, 17. Mr. Schrade, the most seriously wounded of the five, underwent an apparently successful operation at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital today to remove a bullet from his skull. Mr. Weisel was reported in good condition after removal of a bullet from his abdomen.

The court complaint against Sirhan charged that "on or about the fifth day of June, 1968, at and in the county of Los Angeles a felony was committed by John Doe, who at the time and place aforesaid, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously commit an assault with a deadly weapon upon Robert Francis Kennedy, a human being, with the intent then and there willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with malice aforethought to kill and murder the said Robert Francis Kennedy." Sirhan was represented at the arraignment by the chief public defender, Richard S. Buckley. He asked Mr. Buckley to get in touch with the American Civil Liberties Union about getting private counsel for him. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 Share Search FILE - This June 5, 1968 file photo shows Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaking at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, following his victory in the previous day's California primary election. A moment later he turned into a hotel kitchen corridor and was critically wounded. His wife, Ethel, is just behind him. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File) U.S.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy holds two fingers up in a victory sign as he talks to campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., June 5, 1968. He is flanked by his wife Ethel, left, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making the speech, Kennedy left the platform and was assassinated in an adjacent room. (AP Photo) This is the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, seen June 1968, where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated during his campaign for the presidency. (AP Photo) Sirhan Sirhan, charged with the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy during a campaign stop in California. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Edward M. Kennedy with Ethel Kennedy and others at the airport in Los Angeles, June 6, 1968 as they depart with the body of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/Harold Filan) File - In this Oct. 15, 1966 black-and-white file photo, Sen Robert F.

Kennedy, D-N.Y., and his wife Ethel Kennedy pose with eight of their nine children on the lawn of their home at McLean, Va. From right are: Kathleen; Joseph; Robert Jr.; David; Mary Courtney; Michael; Kerry; and Christopher. (AP Photo, File) Ethel Kennedy, widow of assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and her children leave St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York after funeral services, June 8, 1968. At her side is her brother-in-law Edward M. Kennedy. (AP Photo) The casket of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is carried from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, June 8, 1968. (AP Photo) Edward M. Kennedy, brother of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, delivers a eulogy for his brother at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, June 8, 1968, with New York City Archbishop, Cardinal Terence Cooke, seated in center background. (AP Photo) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is shown as he leaves the courtroom in Los Angeles, Ca., on July 19, 1968.

Sirhan assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo) Pall bearers stand over the casket of assassinated New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, June 8, 1968. (AP Photo) FILE - In this June 8, 1968 file photo, Ethel Kennedy is escorted by her brother-in-law, Sen. Edward Kennedy, to their pew in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for the funeral services of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo, File) Mourners stand outside of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on the day of the funeral for assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, June 8, 1968. (AP Photo) American actor, dancer, and singer, Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925 - 1990) signing the book of condolences for Robert Kennedy at the American Embassy, London, 6th June 1968. (Photo by Maher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, left, wife of the slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, follows his casket into St.

Patrick's Cathedral, June 7, 1968. With her are two sisters of the late senator, Patricia Lawford, right, and Jean Smith, center. Sen. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles at a campaign rally. (AP Photo) File - Frank Mankiewicz, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's press secretary, tells a news conference outside Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968., that Kennedy emerged from three hours of surgery in "extremely critical condition." All but one fragment of a bullet in Kennedy's head was removed by a team of surgeons. (AP Photo) File - Charles Wright, a police technician, and officer Robert Rozzi inspects a bullet hole discoverd in a door frame in a kitchen corridor of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles near where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and critically wounded June 5, 1968. Bullet is still in the wood. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel) Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children, John Jr. and Caroline, kneel at the grave of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, June 9, 1968 in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

Both Robert and Jacqueline's husband John F. Kennedy were shot to death by assassins. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs) File - This is an undated portrait of Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan on June 6, 1968.(AP Photo) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, center, listens to his attorney Russell Parsons as they leave his court appearance in Los Angeles, Aug. 2, 1968, at which Sirhan pleaded "not guilty" to a charge he murdered Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/Pool) Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is seen with her children Caroline, right, and John Jr., behind, as they walk past the casket of her late husband's brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on June 7, 1968. (AP Photo) This picture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talking to campaign workers in Los Angeles was made minutes before he was shot early today, June 5, 1968.

At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel) File - This file photo from June 1968 shows Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, right, accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy with his attorney Russell E. Parsons in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy, June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after Kennedy's victory in the state's Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy died the next day. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy watches election returns with his son Michael Kennedy, 10, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in this June 5, 1968 file photo, taken an hour before Kennedy was shot. Michael Kennedy died of head injuries on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1997, after slamming headfirst into a tree as he played football on skis in Aspen., Colo. (AP Photo/Look Magazine) MANDATORY CREDIT - LOOK MAGAZINE.

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is seen during a campaign tour through Oxnard, Calif., as political advance man Jerry Bruno runs along side his limousine, trying to clear the way and keep the candidate on schedule, June 1, 1968. (AP Photo/George Brich) This was the scene at KGO-TV station in San Francisco as Senator Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy were readied for their presidential debate, June 1, 1968. From left: ABC White House correspondent William Lawrence; floor man attaches mike to Sen. McCarthy's neck; Peggy Whedon, producer; Frank Reynolds, ABC newsman who was moderator; Sen. Robert Kennedy; and ABC political correspondent, Robert Clark. (AP Photo) Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York runs through the surf with his dog, Freckles, during a stop in Astoria, Ore., May 24, 1968, during his campaign for the presidential nomination. Kennedy was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan shortly after a California primary election victory speech on June 5, 1968, at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Bobby Kennedy served as campaign manager for his brother John F.

Kennedy's successful presidential bid, and was later appointed by President Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. (AP Photo/Barry Sweet) The Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, attracted crowds of young blacks during a tour down Detroit's Twelfth Street, May 15, 1968. The street was the center of last July's riot. Looking on is Kennedy's wife, Ethel. (AP Photo/Preston Stroup) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel walk quietly toward the plane in Indianapolis, May 8, 1968, as the senator left Indiana after his victory in Tuesday's Indiana Primary. Kennedy won the primary over Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Indiana Gov. Roger D. Branigin. (AP Photo/Richard Sroda) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY, and Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn, strike thoughtful poses during funeral services for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 09, 1968 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/pool) Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy, his wife Ethel and Lord Harlech, walk along Fifth Avenue to the Plaza Hotel where a buffet supper was held following star-studded American premiere of “Doctor Faustus” at New York’s Cinema 57 Rendezvous Theater, Feb. 6, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Kanthal) Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) is shown during a news conference at the Overseas Press Club in New York, Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shown at the World Series with his father Joe and brother Ted, Oct. 1967 in Boston. (AP Photo) Senator Robert F. Kennedy was paired with top-ranked Arthur Ashe, left, in an exhibition doubles tennis match at a block party near Lincoln Park in northeast Washington, August 3, 1967. Kennedy and Ashe were opposed by #2 ranked player, Charles Pasarell, third from left, and former Davis Cupper Donald Dell. The affair was sponsored by the D.C. Recreation Department.

(AP Photo/Bob Schutz) Father Albert Pereira presides over the rites of baptism for Douglas Harriman Kennedy, the youngest son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.), and his wife, Ethel, June 18, 1967 at St. Luke’s Church in McLean, Va.. Courtney Kennedy holds the baby with her brother, David, at her side. In the right background are the child’s namesakes, Douglas Dillon, left, and Averell Harriman. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges) The Senators Kennedy, Edward of Massachusetts left, and Robert of New York, sit together during a session of the Senate Labor Subcommittee on March 15, 1967 in Washington. The two brothers, both Democrats, are members of the subcommittee. (AP Photo) From left to right: Ed McMahon, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.), and talk show host Johnny Carson are seen on the "Johnny Carson Show," April 1957, in Burbank. (AP Photo) FILE - In this June 7 1966 file photo Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy is surrounded by students and newsmen as he tours Stellenbosch, South Africa during five-day visit to South Africa as the guest of the multiracial National Union of South African students. In 1966 Kennedy traveled to apartheid South Africa and spoke about equality and the rule of law. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle, File) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY, shuts his eyes and paddles hard as he shoots some rapids during the last day of his trip down Idaho's "River of No Return," July 5, 1966. Senator Kennedy rode out the last 40 miles of the river in a kayak. The senator, along with his family and several friends, spent four days floating down the river in rubber rafts. (AP Photo/stf) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, pose with Pope Paul VI during a visit at the Vatican, June 6, 1966. (AP Photo) Senator Robert F. Kennedy, visiting the grave of his brother , the late president , in Arlington National Cemetery, January 20, 1965. (AP Photo) Sen.

Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.), left, and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), leave the Capitol, Oct. 21, 1965 after a surprise request by the younger brother won approval of the Senate. The Massachusetts senator, in an emotional speech to colleagues, asked that Francis X. Morrissey nomination for a federal judgeship be sent back to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The senate did as the younger Senator Kennedy asked. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), holds his new son, eight-day-old Matthew, as he and his wife, Ethel, leave New York’s Roosevelt Hospital, Jan. 19, 1965. Kennedy said Matthew is “going to be leader of the assembly in Albany - we finally came up with a candidate.” He referred to the current Democratic leadership deadlock in the state legislature. (AP Photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., holds a cane as he sits beside his freshman senator brother, Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., in the last row on the floor of the House chamber for President Lyndon Johnson's State of the Union speech on Jan. 4, 1965 in Washington.

When he was Attorney General, Robert sat in the front row for such speeches. (AP Photo) Robert Kennedy, senator-elect from New York, speaks December 2, 1964 at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Kennedy said his brother "recognized in the arts something that revealed the truth about human beings and their suffering." Seated at left are President Johnson, who lifted the first shovel full of earth, and the First Lady. (AP Photo/stf) U.S. Senator-elect Robert F. Kennedy is shown with his wife Ethel boarding plane on Nov. 4, 1964 in New York City at LaGuardia Airport for flight to Glens Falls, N.Y. (AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy, senatorial candidate from New York, is accompanied by his wife, Ethel, and three of his eight children as he visits the Fordham University campus in the Bronx on the final day of campaigning, Nov. 2, 1964. The children are Joseph, 12; David, 9; and Kathleen, 13. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Harry Harris) Robert F.

Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel, pose with seven of their eight children at the Bronx Zoo, on Nov. 3, 1964 in New York City. Mrs. Kennedy is expecting her ninth child in a few months. (AP Photo) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and President Lyndon Johnson walk toward a receiving line on the White House lawn at a reception for 90 U.S. Marshals, Aug. 18, 1964. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his family kneel at the grave of his brother, John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery, May 29, 1964, the assassinated president's birthday. From left: Robert Kennedy; Kathleen, 12; Michael, 6; Joseph, 11; Mary Kerry, front, 4; Patricia Lawford; David, 8; Mary Courtney, 7; Ethel Kennedy, the senator's wife, and Robert Francis, 10. Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, Caroline and John, Jr., stand in center background. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges) Mrs. John F.

Kennedy, heavily veiled in black, arrives at the Capitol rotunda with the late President's two brothers, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, left, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, (D-MA), November 25, 1963, to pay a final tribute at the flag-draped casket lying in state on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/stf President John F. Kennedy's widow and his brothers arrive for the funeral Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, Nov. 25, 1963. In front are Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy. In between and behind Robert and Mrs. Kennedy is Sargent Shriver. President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson are in the background. Others are unidentifed. (AP Photo) Jacqueline Kennedy stands with daughter Caroline as Chief Justice Earl Warren eulogizes the slain president in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, Nov. 24, 1963. From left: soldier Stephen Smith, unidentified, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Peter Lawford comforting daughter Sydney and Mrs. Smith.

(AP Photo) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, her dress stained with blood, stands with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, holding her hand, as they watch the casket of her slain husband, President John F. Kennedy, placed in an ambulance at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., near Washington, November 22, 1963. The body of the president was flown from Dallas, Texas, where he was fatally shot earlier in the day. At right are Evelyn Lincoln, glasses, and Kenneth O'Donnell of the White House staff. Mrs. Lincoln was the late president's personal secretary. (AP Photo) The casket containing the body of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a Navy ambulance from the Presidential plane which arrived from Dallas, Tex, where Kennedy was assassinated, to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Nov. 22, 1963. U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy is behind on the elevator. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, his brother, is beside her. Lawrence O'Brien of the White House staff is at the right. Secret Service men are directly behind the casket.

(AP Photo) File - In this August 23, 1963 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., center, poses with his brothers U. S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and President John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of slain President John F. Kennedy, holds her children's hands outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, after funeral Mass for the president, Nov. 25, 1963. In front, from left: Caroline, Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy Jr. Behind them are the president's brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), left, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo) Attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and wife Ethel pose with their seven children, Feb. 10, 1963. Mrs. Kennedy is expecting their eighth child in June. The boys, from left, are Robert Jr., 8, David, 7; Michael, 4; and Joe, 10.

The girls, from left, are Kathleen, 11; Kerry, 3; and Mary Courtney, 6. (AP Photo) U.S. President John F. Kennedy, right, confers with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1, 1962 during the buildup of military tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that became Cuban missile crisis later that month. (AP Photo) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas are shown crossing a bridge five miles up the Elwha River trail as they hike into the Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, Washington, August 9, 1962. (AP Photo) Attorney General Robert Kennedy talks with his brother, President Kennedy, at the White House, February 28, 1962, after returning to Washington from an around-the-world trip. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is at left. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel brought five of their seven children to the opening of the Washington International Horse Show, where Mrs. Kennedy rode in a hunter event, Oct.

24, 1961. The children are, left to right, front: Kathleen, Mary Courtney and David. Joseph is in center rear and Bobby stands in front of his father. Mrs. Kennedy was also opening night chairman. (AP Photo/Bob Schutz) President John F. Kennedy walks towards his car leaving his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, left, and his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, right, moments after his arrival on Oct. 20, 1961 at Quonset Point Air Station, Rhode Island. The President and his family will spend the weekend at Newport, Mass. His brother, who made the trip from Washington, flew to Hyannis, Mass. with his father, in the family plane. (AP Photo) President John F. Kennedy gestures as he stands with Mrs. Kennedy and a group at a White House reception, October 10, 1961, for the Supreme Court and federal judges. Left to right, front, the President and Mrs. Kennedy, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Johnson, Mrs. Earl Warren, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and wife. Center row: Justice William J.

Douglas and wife, Justice Hugo Black. Top row: Justice Tom C. Clark, Justice John M. Harlan, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and wife. Informal dress replaced the white tie reception of other years. (AP Photo/Bob Schutz) Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and brother of President John F. Kennedy, is deep in thought at the Justice Department as he worked with aides considering legal measures to be taken following racial violence in Montgomery, Ala., May 21, 1961, Washington, D.C. The riot was touched off by a freedom ride test by mixed whites and African Americans arriving there from Birmingham, Ala., May 20. He ordered a task force of U.S. Marshals and Byron R. White, Deputy U.S. Attorney General, to the area to safeguard federal rights. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins) Robert F. Kennedy. United States attorney general, and his wife, Ethel, take a view of the Continental Divide while skiing at Independence Pass on Oct. 2, 1961 in Aspen, Colorado. (AP Photo) Following John F.

Kennedy's election as President, the Kennedy clan gathered for this group photo at the Hyannisport, Mass. home of Joseph P. Kennedy, their father, on November 9, 1960. Shown standing, left to right are: Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy; Steve Smith and his wife, Jean Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; sister, Patricia Lawford; Sargent Shriver; brother Ted's wife, Joan; and British actor, Peter Lawford. In foreground, left to right: Eunice Shriver, a sister; Joseph P. Kennedy with wife seated in front; Jacqueline Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy. (AP Photo) John F. Kennedy, at right, stands with Lyndon Baines Johnson before the Texas delegation caucus in Los Angeles July 12, 1960 prior to the Democratic Convention. Both Senators are Democratic contenders for the Presidential nomination. Behind Senator Kennedy is his brother Robert F. Kennedy, his campaign manager. Man behind Senator Johnson at left rear is unidentified. (AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy, left, Counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, confers with his brothers Edward Kennedy, center, and Sen. John F.

Kennedy during a committee hearing in Washington, D.C., in 1959. (AP Photo) James R. Hoffa, president of The Teamster's Union, right, stands with Robert Kennedy, counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, as he speaks to Kennedy in the hearing room, on September 17, 1958, in Washington. Walter J. Sheridan, a committee investigator looks over Hoffa's shoulder. (AP Photo) Sen. John F. Kennedy, center, D-Mass., and his brothers Edward Kennedy, left, a student at the University of Virginia, and Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee, attend the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 1958. (AP Photo) Sen. John Kennedy, D-Mass., and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, watch as her sister, Mrs. Lee Bouvier Canfield, holds their 15-day-old daughter during her christening in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on Dec. 13, 1957. At left is the senator's brother, Robert Kennedy, acting as godfather.

Third from left is Stephen Smith, the senator's brother-in-law. Boston's archbishop Richard Cushing christened the baby, named Caroline. (AP Photo) Robert Kennedy, chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee on investigations is shown at the hearing on March 19, 1957 in Washington at a hearing. (AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy, assistant counsel of the Senate Investigations subcommittee, testifies May 4, 1953, that 19 owners of the 82 ships flying flags of western allies of the U.S. are taking money from Communist China with one hand and from the U.S. with the other. Kennedy testified about the "dual trade" at a hearing of the subcommittee headed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.). (AP Photo/Henry Griffin) Robert F. Kennedy, left, brother of Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, and his tourist companion, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, turn out in ceremonial robes for a souvenir picture, Sept. 15, 1955, in Stalingrad, Russia. The colorful outfits were picked up during the recently concluded tour of Asia and Siberia.

(AP Photo) Newlyweds Ethel Skakel and Robert F. Kennedy leave St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in Greenwich, Ct. on June 17, 1950. After a wedding reception at the Skakel's home, the couple departed for a 3-month trip to Hawaii. (AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy and his bride, the former Ethel Skakel, are shown walking down the aisle of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Conn., after their marriage on June 17, 1950. (AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy is shown at age 17 being sworn in as a naval aviation cadet at the First Naval District headquarters in Boston, Mass., October , 1943. The swearing-in officer is Lt. Cmdr. Edward S. Brower. (AP Photo) Members of the cabinet of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy take the oath during the swearing-in of the new cabinet by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on January 23, 1961. From L to R : Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of the Treasury C.

Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Postmaster General J. Edward Day, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Secretary of the Agriculture Orville Freeman, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham A. Ribicoff. (Photo credit should read STF/AFP/Getty Images) 4th July 1939: Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) ( on the left) eating ice-cream with John Sheffield in the garden of the American embassy in London during the time when his father, Joseph Kennedy was ambassador to Great Britain. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) 16th March 1938: Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1888 - 1969), the American Ambassador and financier with his wife and five of their nine children at the Princes Gate home in London. Left to right: Kathleen, Edward (who became a Democratic senator), Joseph Kennedy, wife Rose Kennedy, Patricia (1924 - 2006), Jean and Robert, who became a Democratic senator before his assassination.

(Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 1937: American multi-millionaire Joseph Patrick Kennedy (right), the newly-appointed ambassador to London, with his wife Rose Kennedy (second from right) and eight of their nine children, in London. From left: Edward, Jeanne, Robert, Patricia (1924 - 2006), Eunice, Kathleen, Rosemary and John F Kennedy who later became the 35th President of the United States. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) British zoologist, author and humanist Sir Julian Sorell Huxley opening Pets Corner, with Edward Kennedy (front) and Robert Kennedy (rear) when their father, Joseph Kennedy, was the American ambassador to Britain. Original Publication: People Disc - HE0207 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ‹

Question: In which US city was Senator Robert F Kennedy assassinated in June 1968?
Answer: Los Angeles