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Events on Wednesday 5 June 1968 1
1968Assassination of Robert F. KennedyUS presidential candidate shot after winning the California primarySenator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after declaring victory in the California Democratic primary. He died the following day. His death, coming two months after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, deepened a sense of national crisis in the United States.