History Lesson Tuesday: 1968-Robert F. Kennedy is Fatally Shot

Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was pronounced deadContinue reading “History Lesson Tuesday: 1968-Robert F. Kennedy is Fatally Shot”