Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters ...
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/ s ɪər ˈ h ɑː n /; [2] Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968.
Escorting Ambassador Mourain and his family safely to a helicopter, Childers retrieves the embassy's American flag. Under heavy fire from snipers on nearby rooftops, three Marines are killed, and Childers orders his men to open fire on the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 83 irregular Yemeni soldiers and civilians, including children; the ...
On Thursday, Jeb Bush dropped hints via Twitter about his 2016 ambitions, making him the third Bush to vie for the presidential crown. 47 years ago, another member of a political dynasty was ...
“Anybody who was alive at that time can remember exactly where they were when they heard the news,” Rob Reiner says about Nov. 22, 1963, the epochal day when President John F. Kennedy was ...
The black limousine under the portico is the car the president was in when he was shot. Nov. 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy’s limousine parked at the emergency room entrance of Parkland ...
The site was home to the Ambassador Hotel, the site of the June 1968 assassination of presidential candidate, United States senator from New York, and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. [3] Los Angeles Unified School District (known as LAUSD) had wanted to build a school on the site since the 1980s, but was met with resistance ...
Manuel "Matty" Moroun (June 5, 1927 – July 12, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman, most notable as the owner of the Ambassador Bridge international crossing connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario.