Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy
was 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 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan.
He was pronounced dead a day later, on June 6, 1968.
Sirhan, who was born in Palestine, confessed to the crime
at his trial and received a death sentence on March 3, 1969.
Since the California State Supreme Court invalidated all
death penalty sentences in 1972, Sirhan has spent the
rest of his life in prison.
Hubert Humphrey ended up running for the Democrats in
1968, but lost to Nixon.
JUNE 6, 1968
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