Robert F. Kennedy was murdered on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Following dual victories in California and South Dakota, he spoke to journalists and the crowd. A 24-year-old Sirhan Sirhan shot him multiple times with a handgun. Kennedy died in the Good Samaritan Hospital 26 hours later. His body was taken to New York City for a funeral mass in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. He was transported by a private funeral train from New York to Washington, D.C., where thousands of people lined the track to watch and pay their respect.
A year later, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of murdering the senator and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972.
1968 was a tragic year in American history. Martin Luther King Jr. was also assassinated in April. President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to seek a second term in the upcoming presidential election. Robert Kennedy stepped into this breach and got massive public support. He was perceived by many to be the only person in American politics capable of uniting the people. After the California victory, Kennedy was hoping for the Democratic nomination against Richard Nixon in the upcoming election. However, he was assassinated, and Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey lost to Nixon.
Here below are some photographs that show the assassination and its aftermath.
Not to get all conspiracy theorists here, but Sirhan Sirhan was in front of Bobby Kennedy, but Kennedy was shot behind the right ear. Sirhan Sirhan’s only memory from that night is of a girl in a polka dot dress. Wow!
This is okay, but Ashli Babbit’s pictures aren’t?
If I had to guess: the amount of time since it happened
There are plenty of videos on the Internet of that act of insurrection by domestic terrorists.
Stop it with the f***ing “insurrection by domestic terrorists” crap. It’s time everyone finally acknowledged it was only a stupid group of trespassers who didn’t kill anyone, and the only one murdered was Ashli Babbit, a Trump supporter. Go away, you hysterical un-American lying morons.
Mo, you make it sound like a group of innocent kids breaking into the Capitol. It was a mob, breaking in through locked doors.
Babbitt and orher screaming miscreants trying to break and force the door that was the last line of defence to the House lobby, where Congress and the persons first, second and third in the line of succession were gathered.
Babbitt and others were warned and the officer’s gun was brandished before Babbitt attempted her enthusiastic header through the broken door window.
Her death is tragic but sadly she was an active, reckless participant in her own demise.