Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) the former
drummer with The Beatles is 84 today.
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.
Robert Kennedy was pronounced dead a day later, June 6, 1968.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan turned 80 in March.
At Sirhan’s 17th parole board appearance on March 1, 2023, he
was again denied parole. He has waived his right to contest
deportation if he is paroled.
Doctors determined that Ball had succumbed to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm not directly related to her surgery
on April 18 to install an aortic valve replacement.
Lucille Ball was an actress, comedian, producer, and
studio executive. She was recognized by Time in 2020
for her work in all four of these areas.
She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards,
winning five times, and was the recipient of several
other accolades, such as the Golden Globe Cecil B.
DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.
On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was given the death penalty
after being convicted in the assassination of senator Robert
F. Kennedy. In 1972, Sirhan’s sentence was commuted to life
in prison after California abolished the death penalty. He
turned 80 last month.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaks his final words to supporters
at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before
he was shot on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel,
left.
Robert F. Kennedy lies mortally wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling beside him
is 17-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who was
shaking Kennedy’s hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired
the shots.
During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland on May 15, 1972,
George Wallace, the governor of Alabama and a presidential
candidate, was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer. Three
others were wounded, and Wallace was left paralyzed from
the waist down.
The next day, while fighting for his life in a hospital, he won
major primary victories in
Michigan and Maryland. On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the
first Black woman elected to Congress and one of Wallace’s
opponents for the Democratic nomination, famously visited
him in the hospital to wish him well. He remained in the
hospital for several months, bringing his third presidential
campaign to an irrevocable end.
Arthur Herman Bremer will be 73 August
21.
After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was
released from prison on November 9, 2007.
George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)