SENATOR KENNEDY DEAD AT AGE 42
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On June 6, 1968, Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (D-New York) died as a result of a gunshot wound in the brain which he sustained 25 hours earlier at the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles.
The Senator had just claimed victory in the Democratic California Primary for President of the United States. RFK exited the podium in the ballroom of the hotel and was passing through the hotel kitchen when shots rang out.
Three bullets hit the Senator, one causing extensive brain damage. Surgeons operated for almost four hours but were pessimistic about RFK's chances of survival.
Five other persons were wounded in the shooting but all recovered.
Senator Kennedy was 42 years old. With him at the time of death were his wife, Ethel, sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy, brother Teddy, Peter Lawford and Stephen Smith.
Jack Ohman writes...
"RFK reflected our best aspirations. Today, baby boomers are reminded (of) the cost of his death."
SOURCES
"RFK assassination witness willing to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's lawyers," by Brad Johnson and Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com/
"RFK reflected our best aspirations. Today, baby boomers are reminded the cost of his death," by Jack Ohman, June 4, 2021, The Sacramento Bee, www.sacbee.com/
