Today in 1968, 56 years ago: in Los Angeles (California), after a speech at the Ambassador Hotel, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. He will die the next day and the murderer will be sentenced to death, although his sentence will later be commuted to life imprisonment.
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