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Pages of history features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News and the Evening Journal.
June 6, 1968, from the Evening Journal
Robert Kennedy is dead; Mourning proclaimed by Johnson
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died today, felled like his brother by an assassin’s bullet.
He never regained consciousness, never showed signs of recovery after a burst of revolver fire sent a bullet into his brain as he stood at the pinnacle of his own campaign for the White House.
With his pregnant wife, Ethel, at his bedside, the New York senator, 42, died at 1:44 a.m., PDT, little more than 25 hours after the assault at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. A son, Joseph, 15, was also there. ....

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