From the South China Morning Post this week in 1968
Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of the assassinated US president John F. Kennedy, died 25 hours after he himself fell victim to an assassin's bullets.
The senator, triumphant after winning the California primary in his race for the Democratic presidential nomination, was shot down right after accepting the cheers of supporters at his campaign headquarters in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
He underwent nearly four hours of emergency surgery to remove a bullet from his brain, but he never regained consciousness.
The 42-year-old senator was hit by three bullets. One struck near the right ear and entered the brain. Another lodged in the back of his neck and a third grazed his forehead.
The assailant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was rushed through crowds crying, 'Kill him. Lynch him.'
