On this day - 5 June
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy was the US president between January 1961 and September 1964. He then became a US senator and was in the running for the 1968 US presidential election.
On June 5th 1968 Kennedy was shot while leaving a campaign speech he had been giving in Los Angeles, California. He was pronounced dead on June 6th. This was one of several prominent assassinations that prompted the US Secret Service to begin providing protection to US presidential candidates.
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