Anniversaries

Today is the seventy-ninth anniversary of D-Day--June 6, 1944.

And, Robert F. Kennedy died fifty-five years ago today--on June 6, 1968.  He was forty-two.

Mr. Kennedy was shot not long after midnight, on June 5th, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; he had just won the California Democratic presidential primary.  He died twenty-five hours later.