BOBBY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

On 2026-06-04, Representative George Latimer (D-NY-16) delivered a floor speech titled "BOBBY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION" in the House.

BOBBY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 95 (Thursday, June 4, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 95 (Thursday, June 4, 2026)] [House] [Page H3837] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] BOBBY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, 58 years ago this night, in Los Angeles, California, a violent murder occurred. That night, in the Ambassador Hotel, a major candidate for President, Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., was assassinated and denied the right to complete his campaign. No one knows what alternate history might have played out had Bobby lived. I was 14 years old at the time when my father woke me to go with him to see the breaking news on TV in the middle of the night. Two months before, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered much the same way. If you are under the age of 60, you don't remember either night. It is a matter of historic reference, not lived experience. After the King assassination, I remember hearing on the radio the voice of my United States Senator from New York say: ``No one can be certain who next will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed.'' In 60 days, we found out who was next. Columbine, Parkland, Charlie Kirk, Sandy Hook, Islamic Temple of San Diego, Temple Israel in Detroit, time after time. When gun violence claims innocent lives, some Americans still assert their right to hold highly destructive weapons as necessary for their protection under the Second Amendment rights. They resist any and all gun control. Nothing protects them from the madman who gains access to the weapon. We treat these deaths as unfortunate outcomes of our society's ideological unwillingness to rein in weapons of destruction. Mr. Speaker, it is a sad tale told over six decades and counting. ____________________