The assassination of
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, a
United States Senator and brother of
assassinated President
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in
Los Angeles,
California, during the campaign season for the
United States Presidential election, 1968. After winning the California and South Dakota
primary elections for the
Democratic nomination for
President of the United States, Kennedy was fatally shot as he walked through the kitchen of the
Ambassador Hotel and died in the
Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later.
Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old
Palestinian/
Jordanian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime. The shooting was recorded on audio tape by a freelance newspaper reporter, and the aftermath was captured on film.