On June 5, 1968 a disgruntled Palestinian immigrant shot him at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel
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June 5, 1968: Kennedy shot - Documents - Los Angeles Times
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RFK's Killer To Face Parole Board Today  CBS Sacramento  Mar 2, 2011 ... After making a short speech, Kennedy left the platform and was shot in an adjacent room. ... LOS ANGELES (AP)  More than four decades after Sen. ... in the crowded kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel here where Kennedy stood ... who was a Palestinian immigrant from Jordan, will be considered an illegal...
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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia  The assassination of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, ... Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's...
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Pictured: Moment man who assassinated RFK in 1968 is ... - Daily Mail  Feb 10, 2016 ... Sirhan Sirhan, now 71, was found guilty of shooting to death then-presidential ... considering him for release after shooting the presidential hopeful in 1968. .... Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles June 5,1968 ... Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan was later found guilty of...
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Sirhan Sirhan - Wikipedia  Sirhan Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian descent who was convicted of the 1968 ... Around 12:15 a.m. PDT on June 5, 1968, Sirhan fired a .22 caliber ... the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after ... Kennedy was shot three times, once in the head and twice in the back, with a...
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia  Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. .... King had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was struck .... After the assassination, the city of Memphis quickly settled the strike on...
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1983 United States embassy bombing - Wikipedia  The April 18, 1983, United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. .... U.S. President Ronald Reagan on April 18 denounced the "vicious terrorist bombing" as a...
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Sirhan Sirhan - Wikipedia  Sirhan Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian descent who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. ... The judge also denied Sirhan's request for his counsel to withdraw; when his counsel entered ... On June 5, 2003, coincidentally the 35th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination,...
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The Scene of the Crime - The New Yorker  Mar 30, 2015 ... Seymour M. Hersh returns to Vietnam to visit the site of the My Lai massacre. ... In November, 1969, I wrote five articles about Calley, Meadlo, and ..... In San Francisco, he was a prize-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, but, .... McNamara left the Pentagon in February, 1968, and the report was...
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Son of Sam arrested - Aug 10, 1977 - HISTORY.com  On August 10, 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the Son of Sam, the serial killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing six young people and wounding seven others with a .44-caliber revolver.
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American Victims of Terrorist Attacks | Jewish Virtual Library  April 18, 1983. Beirut, Lebanon. A truck-bomb detonated by a remote control exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 employees, including the...
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Did Rabin's assassination truly alter the course of Israeli history ...  Oct 31, 2015 ... Yigal Amir, serving a life sentence for the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. ... for extremism as a law student at Bar-Ilan University, which attracted the best and ... At least once, Ephron notes, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu ... In January 1995, Amir hoped to murder Rabin during a planned...
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On This Day: Puerto Rican Nationalists Attempt to Assassinate Truman  1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, tried to ... On This Day: V-E Day Ends World War II in Europe ... They planned to shoot their way inside to the president, but never made it past the front door. ... his verdict was changed to life in prison just one week before his scheduled execution.
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The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-1973 - Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield ...  Egyptian President Gamal Abd al-Nasser (photo: al-Majalla) ... founder, Hasan al-Banna, was gunned down in the streets of Cairo. ... On August 16, 1953, the Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi fled into exile for five days after an ... In June, 1954, elections were held in Iraq during which opposition parties gained seats in...
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A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building - Oct 21, 1910 ...  A massive explosion destroys the Los Angeles Times building in the city's ... who had allegedly been the intermediary between McNamara and two bomb experts, ... managed to get the brothers to California, where they were to be prosecuted. ... the union leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, off on murder charges in...
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Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento - Wikipedia  The Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento was a September 5, 1975, effort by .... The hotel Ford would be staying at, the Senator Hotel, was located a little more than a one-half mile (0.80 km)about fifteen minutes walking...
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Featured Articles about Yitzhak Rabin - Page 4 - tribunedigital ...  Shalom, Friend is better at describing Rabin's murder than at recalling his past. ... Rabin boldly challenged Arab leaders to meet with him to discuss peace, in Israel ... With the world gone nuts again, with a man of peace murdered by a fellow Jew ... don't make peace efforts," I was told by Jodi Edwards of North Miami Beach,...
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Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel - May 31, 1962 ...  On this day in History, Architect of the Holocaust hanged in Israel on May 31, 1962. ... Eichmann steadily rose in the SS hierarchy, and with the German annexation of Austria in ... of millions of Jews from occupied Europe to the Nazi death camps, where Jews were gassed ... On May 31, 1962, he was hanged near Tel Aviv.
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Who Killed Bugsy Siegel? - Los Angeles Magazine  Sep 29, 2014 ... On June 20, 1947, gangster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel was slain in ... he was shot dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's rented Beverly Hills home...
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How a 1994 Bombing at a Jewish Community Center Threatens ...  Feb 13, 2015 ... Bloomberg Live Conferences  Bloomberg Media Distribution  Advertising ... How a 1994 Bombing at a Jewish Community Center Threatens Argentina's ... who was found shot dead earlier, just days after accusing President Cristina ... The attack on the Jewish center, known as AMIA, was the worst in...
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968)  Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968), Next entry. At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-oor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. ... nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities.