Kennedy shot at Ambassador Hotel
June 5, 1968: Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at 12:20 a.m. in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy was running for president, and the shooting occurred “only a few moments after he had made a victory statement after capturing the California Democratic presidential primary,” The Times reported that day.
“Shouts and screams filled the packed hall as the call went out over the public address system for a doctor,” the newspaper said. “The senator appeared to be in great pain, but conscious.”
The Times ran a front-page photo by Boris Yaro of a busboy in a white jacket cradling Kennedy lying on the pantry floor.
Kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. the next day at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 42.
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