IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY–SATURDAY JUNE 8, 1968– ROBERT KENNEDY’S FUNERAL
Fifty years ago today- June 8, 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral mass was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The 10 AM service was attended […]
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IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY– THURSDAY JUNE 6, 1968- PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIGNS PUBLIC LAW 90-331
On this day in 1968- only hours after the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to assassination- President Lyndon Johnson signed into law Public Law 90-331- after it has […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY- THURSDAY JUNE 6, 1968- SENATOR ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY DIES AT AGE 42.
At 1:44 AM PDT Senator Robert Francis Kennedy was pronounced dead after having been shot nearly twenty-six hours earlier. Kennedy spokesman Frank Mankiewicz met the news media at 2 […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY… JUNE 5, 1968 ROBERT KENNEDY’S VICTORY SPEECH AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES/ IS SHOT AND MORTALLY WOUNDED
Around midnight PDT Senator Robert Kennedy had been declared the winner in the California primary in a hard fought battle with Senator Eugene McCarthy. He would enter the Embassy […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY..TUESDAY JUNE 4, 1968 SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY WINS THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN CALIFORNIA
After losing the Oregon Democratic Presidential Primary a week earlier to Wisconsin Senator Eugene McCarthy-Senator Robert F. Kennedy had to win in California to stay a viable candidate. Oregon was […]
IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY…JUNE 3, 1968 THE DAY ANDY WARHOL WAS SHOT
On this date in 1968- June 3, 1968 pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and seriously wounded by a radial feminist called Valerie Solanas. Solanas went to The Factory, asked […]
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