Composite picture by Gordon Belray of moments after the assassination. Click to enlarge.
On June 5th 1968 Robert Kennedy was shot dead. It was right after he had won the California primary, putting him in a good position for the Chicago convention where the Democratic Party would choose who to run for US president.
At 10.30pm California time, Black and Latino votes from Los Angeles came in. They went hard for Kennedy. It put him well ahead of Eugene McCarthy, enough for CBS to declare him the winner.
At 11.45pm, sure of his victory, he came down to the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles where he was staying. The television networks were about to go off the air on the east coast where it was almost three in the morning.
Kennedy in his victory speech:
“What I think is quite clear is that we can work…
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