Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Kennedy in Los Angeles, California around June 1968, shortly before his assassination

A recreation of the famous photograph by Boris Yaro of a wounded Kennedy being held by busboy Juan Romero

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles after winning his campaign in California.

Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and died at the Good Samaritan Hospital not less than a day later. Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant,^[1] was guilty for Kennedy's murder and is now serving a life sentence for the assassination. As of 2011, Kennedy and Huey Long are the only U.S. Senators to be killed while in office.

References

Mary Ferrell Foundation - RFK Assassination Documents – LAPD and FBI investigation files and the trial transcript at the Mary Ferrell Foundation
FBI file on the RFK assassination^{[dead link]}

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