AP images from the RFK assassination and funeral (2024)

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Edward M. Kennedy makes the eulogy for his brother, the slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, June 8, 1968. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses a throng of supporters in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles early in the morning of June 5, 1968, following his victory in the previous day’s California primary election. A moment later he turned into a hotel kitchen corridor and was critically wounded. His wife, Ethel, is just behind him. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel)

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U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy holds two fingers up in a victory sign as he talks to campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., June 5, 1968. He is flanked by his wife Ethel, left, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making the speech, Kennedy left the platform and was assassinated in an adjacent room. (AP Photo)

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This picture of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talking to campaign workers in Los Angeles was made minutes before he was shot early today, June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel)

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Entrance to the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 28, 1968. It was at the Ambassador Hotel that U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968 after making a campaign speech. (AP Photo/David F. Smith)

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Football player Roosevelt Grier, credited with assisting in the capture of the man held as a suspect in the shooting early today June 5, 1968 of Sen. Robert Kennedy, takes a few steps backwards as he and companions leave the hospital in Los Angeles where Kennedy has undergone surgery. Rafer Johnson, the Olympic decathlon champ, and Grier both were credited for helping capture and hold the suspect. (AP Photo)

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Robert Rozzi, police technician, and Charles Wright, police officer, left, inspect a bullet hole discovered in a door frame in a kitchen corridor of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles near where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and critically wound June 5, 1968. Bullet is still in the wood. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel)

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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, right, accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is seen with his attorney Russell E. Parsons, June 1968. (AP Photo)

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Children of Sen. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy arrives, June 5, 1968 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland near Washington, after an evening flight from Los Angeles where their father was shot earlier in the day. Coming down ramp of an Air Force plane are, from bottom, Kerry, 8 assisted by an unidentified aide; Michael, 10, Courtnay, 11, and David, 13. Others inside plane include Astronaut John Glenn, back to camera, assisting Christopher, 4. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)

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Frank Mankiewicz, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s press secretary, tells a news conference outside Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968., that Kennedy emerged from three hours of surgery in “extremely critical condition.” All but one fragment of a bullet in Kennedy’s head was removed by a team of surgeons. (AP Photo)

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Eunice Shriver, sister of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and wife of Sargent Shriver, U.S. Ambassador to France arrives by auto at the embassy residence in Paris, June 5, 1968 after hearing the news that her brother had been shot in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Levy)

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Edward M. Kennedy with Ethel Kennedy and others at the airport in Los Angeles, June 6, 1968 as they depart with the body of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/Harold Filan)

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The casket of Robert F. Kennedy is carried to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, June 8, 1968. The pallbearers are led by Kennedy’s oldest son, Joseph. (AP Photo)

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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, center, listens to his attorney Russell Parsons as they leave his court appearance in Los Angeles, Aug. 2, 1968, at which Sirhan pleaded “not guilty” to a charge he murdered Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan’s trial was set for early Nov. (AP Photo/Pool)

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A young boy touches the casket of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in paying respects June 7, 1968 near the main altar in New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. An honor guard stands around the flag-draped casket of the Senator. The flag was placed by the Green Berets, members of the U.S. Special Forces. (AP Photo/stf)

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Mrs. Ethel Kennedy is escorted by her brother-in-law, Senator Edward Kennedy, to their pew in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York for the funeral services of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the morning of June 8, 1968. (AP Photo/stf)

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Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is seen with her children Caroline, right, and John Jr., behind, as they walk past the casket of her late husband’s brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on June 7, 1968. (AP Photo)