A great man died on June 6th

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1731603

EDIT: Corrected to reflect the date of his death; the date of his assassination was June 5th

[ronnykmarshall]

1. RFK died on June 6th not the 5th.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

2. Official sources give the date as June 5

http://www.rfkmemorial.org/RFK/index.htm

http://foia.fbi.gov/rfkasumm.htm

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Others say the 6th.

http://www.who2.com/robertfkennedy.html

http://pages.prodigy.net/kpmcclave/RFKbio.htm

I remember it. He was only 42!! That just amazes me to think he died younger than I am now.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. I have read that he lived 24 hours and died on June 6th

But have also read the 5th. At any rate, God rest the soul of a very great man, RFK.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. He was an amazing man.

When I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be a democrat because of him.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

6. He died on the 6th; the assassination was June 5th

But neither the FBI nor the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial makes that distinction.

EDIT: I have modified the subject line to reflect the distinction.

[arwalden]

7. That Which Amazes You, Also Amazes Me

I know exactly what you mean.

-- Allen

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. He was shot shortly after midnight (0015 or so) on the 5th

and died about 25 hours later (0138) on the 6th of June.

The official sources say the 5th because that is the day the crime was committed by Sirhan Sirhan (unless you are a :tinfoilhat:}

Something I had forgotten, Sirhan was a member of the Rosicrucians... not that I want to be accused of :tinfoilhat:ism or anything.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Hey...

You don't have to be a :tinfoilhat: to wonder if it were really Sirhan Sirhan actually killed Bobby. He shot him from what? 6 ft away? But yet there is gunshot residue around the wound, consistent with a very close range shot. I mean, at least this is what I've read and heard on the Discovery Channel/History Channel stuff I've seen.
Duckie