Vice-president, and presidential candidate, Richard Nixon,
and Pat Nixon riding in the 1960 Rose Parade. Richard
Nixon served as Grand Marshall in 1953 and 1960, the
only person to serve as Grand Marshall twice in eight
years. (The Richard Nixon Foundation)

This Day in History – June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy
was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by 24-year-old
Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot in the head and died
early the next morning.

Kennedy delivered remarks to a crowd in the Ambassador
Hotel moments before the assassination.

Robert F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery.