Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day.
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.
Kennedy campaigning in Los Angeles, 1968
Kennedy addressing supporters in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel
Kennedy's grave in Arlington National Cemetery
Robert F. Kennedy
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Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism.
Kennedy in 1961
Kennedy (second from left) in front of a snow replica of a Navy boat at Bates College
Kennedy (with sisters Eunice and Jean) holding a football at the family's Massachusetts home, c. November 1948
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (left), Robert Kennedy (center) and Solicitor General Archibald Cox (right) at the White House on May 7, 1963