Lawn covered Robert F. Kennedy 's 1968 presidential campaign , travelling with him across the United States . She conducted one of the last interviews with Kennedy before his assassination in Los Angeles on June 5 of that year . Later that year , whilst reporting on the riots and protests around the 1968 Democratic National Convention , Lawn was beaten by Chicago police officers . She covered the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia from Prague , the Watergate scandal of 1972 , and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 . At around the time of the 1982 Lebanon War , Lawn avoided an attempted abduction in Lebanon by hitting her attacker in the face with a bag and escaping to Israeli soldiers
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
Connie Lawn