On this day in 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, one of two younger brothers of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, was shot in Los Angeles as he campaigned for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
He was walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel when Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant, attacked him. Shot three times, Kennedy died of his wounds about 26 hours later.
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Kennedy had entered the race for the nomination in March, joining Senator Eugene McCarthy in seeking the Democratic nomination. President Lyndon Johnson decided not to run. Vice President Hubert Humphrey also signed up, and ultimately, he secured the nomination, but lost the election to Richard Nixon.
Sirhan Sirhan remains in prison in California.
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