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absolutely, in front of a crowd of witnesses, in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968, by Sirhan Sirhan.
Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in the early hours of June 5, 1968. He was shot with a .22 caliber Iver-Johnson, and died in the hospital nearly 26 hours later. As a response to his death, the United States Secret Service began a policy of protecting potential presidential candidates.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He died at the scene. James Earl Ray was his assassin. On June 5, 1968, U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot during his speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy died from his injuries the following day. His assassin was Sirhan Sirhan.
Martin Luther King
Lyndon Johnson was President in 1968 when King was assassinated.