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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown. In 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime.
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At age 39, the former Nation of Islam leader, Malcolm X, was shot and killed by assassins (identified as Black Muslims) as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Harlem.
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At 6:01 p.m. civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot and later pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
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Popular Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy waited all day for the election results to come in from the Democratic primary in California.As Kennedy travelled to a party after recieving the results, 24-year-old, Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan stepped up to Robert Kennedy and opened fire with his .22 pistol. He was rushed to the hospital and at 1:44 a.m. Robert Kennedy died from his wounds at age 42.
