Although Kennedy was the only fatality there were others wounded during the assassination. Willliam Weisel of ABC News, Paul Schrade of United Auto Workers Union, Elizabeth Evans of the Democratic Party, Ira Goldstein of the Continental News Service and Kennedy campaign volunteer Irwin Stroll. Singer/actress Rosemary Clooney, aunt of actor George Clooney,was standing nearby and although unhurt physically, she suffered a nervous breakdown shortly after Kennedy's assassination.
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Robert F Kennedy was assassinated on June 4, 1968.
The Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles CA.
June 5, 1968
No, he lived for almost 26 hours after being shot.
Robert "Bobby" Kennedy never made it to the White House. He was shot shortly after his nomination to the 1968 Democratic Presidential ticket. His brother President John F. Kennedy was assassinated earlier that decade in 1963.