![]() He clung to life for 26 difficult hours, but died early in the morning of June 6. At 12:15 a.m., 5 June 1968, Sirhan struck and Kennedy fell to the floor, bleeding and mortally wounded from the gunshots. He ended his victory speech shortly after midnight and headed for the hotel’s kitchen, a shortcut to get to a press conference. McCarthy on June 4, Kennedy gave his victory speech to a gathering of about 2,000 buoyant supporters in the hotel’s ballroom. Winning the California Democratic primary over his rival Senator Eugene J. RFK had only entered the presidential primary in March, but was rapidly gaining momentum. Five others were wounded in the shooting as well. He was shot three times by a Jordanian, Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles right after giving a victory speech in the California Democratic presidential primary. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been gunned down – America awoke on 5 June 1968 to read the horrifying news that another of the nation’s young leaders had been attacked: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated – and just two months after civil rights leader Dr. ![]() Only 4½ years after his older brother, President John F. ![]()
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