Historical1968
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, and died the following day. His assassination, coming two months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder, deepened the nation's grief and turmoil.
Why It Matters
Kennedy's assassination underscored the violence that marked 1968 as one of the most tumultuous years in American civic life, raising urgent questions about political violence and the health of democratic discourse.