Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, Ethel's husband was shot by Sirhan Sirhan; Kennedy died 26 hours later. Ethel and her ten children (an eleventh was born later that year) were devastated. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national day of mourning. In 1969, Sirhan was convicted of Robert F. Kennedy's murder and sentenced to death. In 1972, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court invalidated that state's death penalty as it existed at that time.
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