Assassination of Robert Kennedy
| Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy | |
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Boris Yaro's photograph of Robert F. Kennedy lying wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling beside him is 17-year-old Juan Romero, who was shaking Kennedy's hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired the shots.
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| Location |
Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles, California, US |
| Coordinates | 34°03′35″N 118°17′50″W / 34.0597°N 118.2971°WCoordinates: 34°03′35″N 118°17′50″W / 34.0597°N 118.2971°W |
| Date | June 6, 1968 12:15 a.m. (Pacific Time Zone) |
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Attack type
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political assassination, shooting |
| Weapons | .22 caliber Iver-Johnson |
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Non-fatal injuries
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5 |
| Victim | Robert F. Kennedy |
| Perpetrator | Sirhan Sirhan |
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized.
After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later. Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and sentenced to death in 1969, although his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972. On November 22, 2013, Sirhan was transferred from Corcoran to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County. The shooting was recorded on audio tape by a freelance newspaper reporter, and the aftermath was captured on film.
Kennedy's body lay in repose at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for two days before a funeral Mass was held on June 8. His body was interred near his brother John at Arlington National Cemetery. His death prompted the protection of presidential candidates by the United States Secret Service. Hubert Humphrey, the sitting Vice President at the time and also a presidential candidate, later went on to win the Democratic nomination for the presidency, but ultimately lost the election to Republican Richard Nixon.
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