A Lasting Shot

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dave Isay, founder of StoryCore.
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0:24.3	Just after midnight, on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his supporters were celebrating
0:31.2	at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
0:35.0	The results from the presidential primary ran, and Kennedy had won the state.
0:39.6	I want to express my gratitude to my dog, Freckling.
0:45.9	And I'm not doing this in the order of importance, but I also want to thank my white bestful.
0:52.9	But Kennedy's campaign and all the hope that it symbolized for so many people came to
0:57.5	an end that night.
0:59.6	Just minutes after giving that speech, while he was greeting supporters in the hotel kitchen,
1:04.7	Kennedy was shot in the head by an assassin named Sirhan Surhan.
1:17.8	The moments right after the shooting were caught by a young L.A. times photographer.
1:22.5	In this iconic image, Kennedy's lying sprawled on the floor.
1:27.4	A teenage bus boy is kneeling beside him, cradling the senator's head.
1:33.0	If you look at the picture today, there's something really haunting about it, even all
1:37.6	these decades later.
1:39.8	So in this episode, the story behind that famous photo.
1:45.4	It's the StoryCore podcast from NPR.
1:47.2	I'm Camille Kashani.
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