Robert Kennedy Murdered 40 years ago yesterday.

(This was originally posted yesterday but I inadvertantly deleted the video part. I think it needs to be reposted.)

On June 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy (brother of President John F. Kennedy) scored a major victory when he won the California primary during his campaign for the White House. He addressed his supporters in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in a ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He left the ballroom through a service area to greet supporters working in the hotel's kitchen. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22 caliber revolver and shot Kennedy in the head at close range. (Questions persist about whether Sirhan acted alone.) Following the shooting, Kennedy was rushed to The Good Samaritan Hospital where he died early the next morning on June 6.

This compilation of speeches by RFK include his speech to blacks upon hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King, and his speech to supporters the morning he was murdered in Los Angeles.

He was 42 - my age.