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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1968
Page
2
Robert F Kennedy dies after gunfire attack in Los Angeles. Surgeons remove a brain fragment but Kennedy never rallies. Public figures including Mrs Kennedy and family members were with him. Vice President Humphrey mourns a great American as campaigns halt.
The Terre Haute mayor expresses sympathy to the Kennedy family after the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy. The report notes Kennedy won California and pledged 172 delegates, with five others wounded at the Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy remained in critical condition after surgery.
In Saigon new clashes erupted after rangers claimed to crush the last Viet Cong pocket in Cholon. Guerrillas and North Vietnamese moved toward the west of a four block area and infiltrated a building near a Roman Catholic church as tanks blasted rooms. U S forces reported 438 soldiers killed in action and 3,870 wounded last week, the highest weekly toll to date.
Kennedy aides announced a five hour flight with at least 33 family members friends and assistants aboard the Air Force jet to New York. Among them were Kennedy's widow three children Edward Kennedy two sisters and Mrs John Kennedy. Mrs Martin Luther King also aboard. The Requiem Mass set for 10 a.m. Saturday with the body to be placed on a train at 12:30 p.m. for the return to Washington arriving about 4:40 p.m. The cortege will pass by the Senate Office Building and the Department of Justice before burial at Arlington likely at the hillside site with the brother. Salinger said legal requirements would be met before removal from California.
Times Eastern Standard New York outlines tentative rites for senator Robert F. Kennedy. The body arrives at LaGuardia from Los Angeles, lies in state at St Patrick's Cathedral, Requiem Mass follows, then a train to Washington, funeral cortege to Arlington Cemetery and burial likely near John F. Kennedy's grave.
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