The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures

Robert F Kennedy greets a crowd from atop a car Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Kennedy talks with reporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968 Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Kennedy stops to speak with a kitchen worker at the hotel Photograph: Bill Eppridge./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Kennedy gave a speech at the hotel shortly before being assassinated Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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

Kennedy lies on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel after being shot
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Elizabeth Evans, of Los Angeles, wipes blood off her forehead after she was injured in the shooting
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

The suspected gunman Sirhan Sirhan is detained by security guards
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

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

Edward Kennedy stands by the coffin at the funeral of his brother on 8 June 1968
Photograph: Gamma/Keystone/Getty Images

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