The second major assassination of 1968, on this date

It was early on the morning of June 5th, 1968, in much of America.  Senator Robert Kennedy had won the California Democratic presidential primary.  Within three minutes of finishing his victory speech at a Los Angeles hotel, Kennedy was shot and wounded while walking to a news conference.  The TV networks began special coverage throughout the day, interrupting the usual Wednesday schedule of shows such as “Lost In Space” and “The Beverly Hillbillies.”  Kennedy died on the morning of June 6th, and the story continued on television throughout the weekend.  On the day of Kennedy’s funeral, word came that James Earl Ray had been arrested in England.  Ray was suspected in the shooting of Martin Luther King, Jr., two months earlier. 

The Rolling Stones were recording “Sympathy for the Devil” that week.  Because of Bobby Kennedy’s murder, a line originally written as “Who killed Kennedy?” (referring to President Kennedy) was changed to “Who killed the Kennedys?”  Later in 1968, Dion recorded his Top 40 hit “Abraham, Martin, and John,” in which the last verse opens “Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?”  That was 1968, Yesterday in La Crosse.