The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Kennedy, a United States Senator from New York, mounted an unlikely challenge to incumbent Democratic United States President
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Kennedy speaks from the platform of a railway business car on his whistle-stop tour through Oregon's Willamette Valley
Kennedy with supporters in San Francisco (photo by Evan Freed)
Kennedy addresses a crowd in Los Angeles
U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, during celebrations following his successf
Robert F. Kennedy addressing supporters in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel, shortly before his assassination
Logo of the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, in which the protagonist is brainwashed into becoming an assassin