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The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures

Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy campaigning in 1968
Robert F Kennedy greets a crowd from atop a car Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy with reporters at the Ambassador HOtel
Kennedy talks with reporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968 Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy talks to a worker at the Ambassador Hotel on 5 June 1968
Kennedy stops to speak with a kitchen worker at the hotel Photograph: Bill Eppridge./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy speaking at the Ambassador Hotel on 5 June 1968
Kennedy gave a speech at the hotel shortly before being assassinated Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy lies in a pool of blood after being shot in 1968
Busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort Kennedy, who is lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the hotel kitchen Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Robert F Kennedy Lies Shot On The Floor
Kennedy lies on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel after being shot
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Robert F Kennedy: Elizabeth Evans who was hurt in the shooting of Robert F Kennedy in 1968
Elizabeth Evans, of Los Angeles, wipes blood off her forehead after she was injured in the shooting
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Robert F Kennedy: Sirhan Sirhan is held after shooting Robert F Kennedy
The suspected gunman Sirhan Sirhan is detained by security guards
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Robert F Kennedy: An inconsolable woman at the viewing of Robert F Kenndy's coffin
A woman is helped by two policemen at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York after viewing Kennedy's coffin, on 7 June 1968
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Robert F Kennedy: Edward Kennedy at the funeral of his brother Robert Kennedy on 8 June 1968
Edward Kennedy stands by the coffin at the funeral of his brother on 8 June 1968
Photograph: Gamma/Keystone/Getty Images
Robert F Kennedy: Mourners salute the funeral train carrying the body of Robert F Kennedy
Mourners hold up an American flag as the body of Robert F Kennedy is taken to Arlington national cemetery for burial Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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