CAMILLE BOHANNON
Around 12:15 a.m. PDT on June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan fired a .22
caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at Senator Robert Kennedy
and the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hotel in Los
Angeles shortly after Kennedy had finished addressing supporters
in the hotel’s main ballroom (above).
Sirhan Sirhan (center) is led away from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy
SANDY KOZEL
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
John F. Kennedy served as the 35th president of the United States
from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. As a
member of the Democratic Party, he represented Massachusetts in
the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming
president.
ED DANAHUE
Comedian Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s "Tonight Show" for the
last time on this day in 1992. He had been host for 30 years.
MIKE GRACIA
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also
appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New
York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut
in 1935, and his career grew after his Academy Award–
nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of
Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck‘s novel
about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the
Dust Bowl.
1939
1957
ROSS SIMPSON
Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet
Union on this day in 1960. Powers (below) was taken prisoner.
The charred wreckage of U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy
plane is shown on display at the Central Armed Forces Museum
in Moscow, April 30, 2010. (AP)
