Just after midnight PDT on June 5 , 1968 , an enraged Palestinian gunman named Sirhan Sirhan mortally wounded Robert Kennedy minutes after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary . Jacqueline Kennedy rushed to Los Angeles to join his wife Ethel , her brother-in-law Ted Kennedy , and the other Kennedy family members at his hospital bedside . Bobby Kennedy never regained consciousness and died 26 hours after the shooting
mortally wounded
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis