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Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968
An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.
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Sun 9 Jun 196821:00
BBC Radio 4
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