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Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

With the holiday season upon us, we're taking a little break.

So for the next few days, we're replaying some of our favorite episodes from 2018.

We'll be back after the new year with more fascinating and fun discoveries from the past.

Happy holidays.

Now, on with the show.

June 5, 1968.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy takes the podium at the Ambassador Hotel in California.

It's late.

He has just won the state's Democratic primary for president.

So my thanks to all of you, and now it's on to Chicago and let's win there.

Those would be some of the final words in his life.

Suddenly, shots ringing.

It is possible.

He had, not only Senator Kennedy, oh my God, Senator Kennedy has been shot.

First, his brother, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. Now Bobby,

killed by assassins.

Bobby's death, coming just weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation, especially those who looked to him to continue the national discussion

over racial equality that King had led right up to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

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