The assassination of Robert F Kennedy – in pictures
Senator Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968. The Guardian's US correspondent at the time, Alistair Cooke, wrote then of hearing 'a crackle of sharp sounds … An exploded flash bulb maybe, more like a man banging a tray several times against a wall'. The Guardian is revisiting Cooke's coverage for this newspaper and the BBC on the 90th anniversary of the first regular news broadcasts by the corporation
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Robert F Kennedy greets a crowd from atop a car
Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Kennedy talks with reporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968
Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Kennedy stops to speak with a kitchen worker at the hotel
Photograph: Bill Eppridge./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Kennedy gave a speech at the hotel shortly before being assassinated
Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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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
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Kennedy lies on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel after being shotPhotograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Elizabeth Evans, of Los Angeles, wipes blood off her forehead after she was injured in the shootingPhotograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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The suspected gunman Sirhan Sirhan is detained by security guardsPhotograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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A woman is helped by two policemen at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York after viewing Kennedy's coffin, on 7 June 1968Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Edward Kennedy stands by the coffin at the funeral of his brother on 8 June 1968Photograph: Gamma/Keystone/Getty Images
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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
