Inspiration for today’s America - Robert Kennedy 50th anniversary

Fifty years ago today, Robert F Kennedy, the 42-year-old Democratic presidential candidate, was assassinated just after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five years earlier, his brother John F Kennedy met the same, sorry fate in Dallas.

Both deaths provoked huge outpourings of grief. Three days after he was assassinated, Robert Kennedy’s funeral took place in New York. His coffin was later taken by train to Washington for burial. The cortege had an unexpected audience.