Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
 Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a 24 year old Palestinian man named Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy had just addressed his supporters in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and was walking through a kitchen pantry, shaking hands with well-wishers and hotel staff, when Sirhan Sirhan stepped in front of Kennedy, shouted at him and fired a .22 caliber revolver. The evening his was shot, Kennedy had won the June 4th Democratic Presidential primaries in South Dakota and California, boosting his chances for the Democratic nomination for President during the 1968 presidential election. It is widely thought that Sirhan Sirhan acted alone. Sirhan attributed the killing to Kennedy’s support for Israel during and after the Six-Day War, although there is no record of Robert Kennedy’s support for Israel during that period. Click for video
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