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.

On April 21, 1865, a train carrying the coffin of assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln left Washington, D.C. on its way
to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried on May 4.

President Lincoln’s Funeral Train, Interior – Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper Drawing.

Millions of Americans bade farewell to the assassinated president as his body made a 1,700-mile journey home.

An authentic replica of the coffin President Abraham Lincoln
was buried in sits on display at the Barboursville Public
Library in 2019. 

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this
day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by
actor John Wilkes Booth. He was 56.

Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860, was the first U.S.
president to be assassinated. 

This engraving depicts John Wilkes Booth escaping after shooting President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. 

The Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall and is dedicated
to the memory of President Abraham Lincoln.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head at Ford’s
Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The assassin,
actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!
(Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as he jumped
onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next
morning.

The Presidential Box today at Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC.

SANDY KOZEL

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was
pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He
was only 39 years old.

James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998)

Ray was convicted of the Assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr.

The Lorraine Motel, now known as the National Civil Rights Museum, where King was assassinated.