Inside RFK's Funeral Train: How His Final Journey Helped a Nation ...
WEBOn June 8, 1968, a 21-car train carried the body of slain New York senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy from New York’s Penn Station to Washington D.C.’s Union Station. Before ...
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Wikipedia
WEBOn June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters ...
Remembering RFK's funeral train, 50 years later - CBS News
WEBJun 6, 2018 · Americans remember Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train, 50 years later. June 6, 2018 / 8:50 AM EDT / CBS News. Fifty years ago, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in...
Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral Train: Story Behind Rare Photos
WEBJun 5, 2018 · Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral Train: Story Behind Rare Photos. By Olivia B. Waxman. June 5, 2018 10:00 AM EDT. When Robert F. Kennedy was shot on June 5, 1968 — exactly 50 years ago — the...
“Who Advanced This?”: The RFK Funeral Train - National Archives
WEBJun 8, 2018 · Her book utilized oral history as narrative, weaving together stories about Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s life, career, death, and the funeral train. This past year, archivists at the Kennedy Library reviewed and opened for research 160 interviews from the Jean Stein Personal Papers collection.
RFK’s Funeral Train, in Photos - The Atlantic
WEBJun 7, 2018 · On June 8, 1968, the body of Robert F. Kennedy was transported by a funeral train from New York to Washington, D.C., and thousands came out to pay their respects as it passed.
Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train, Fifty Years Later
WEBApr 3, 2018 · Robert Kennedy is now dead. He was shot in the head at 12:15 A.M., on June 5, 1968, in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, in Los Angeles, moments after declaring victory in the California...
The Train: RFK's Last Journey - SFMOMA
WEBMar 17, 2018 · On June 8, 1968, three days after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, his body was carried by a funeral train from New York City to Washington, D.C., for burial at Arlington Cemetery. The Train looks at this historical event through three distinct works.
RFK Funeral Train: The People’s View - International Center of ...
WEBOn June 8, 1968, thousands of people lined the train tracks from New York to Washington, DC, paying their last respects and expressing bewilderment and sorrow at the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
RFK Funeral Train Photo Exhibit: Kennedy's Final Journey
WEBApr 24, 2018 · But RFK's funeral, particularly the train that took his body from New York City, following a funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, to Washington, D.C., brought the country together. An...
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