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.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
One of America’s best-loved presidents, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, was born into a politically and socially prominent
family in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
He was the first American president to be born and then
serve in the 20th century.
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)
