Robert F. Kennedy

Former Vice President Joe Biden posed a stark hypothetical to voters in New Hampshire Friday as he discussed today’s volatile political climate: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated? The comment came toward the end of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College ostensibly about healthcare issues, NBC News reports. It was not part of Biden’s standard...

Songs performed by Jay-Z, Cyndi Lauper and a Robert F. Kennedy speech are among 25 recordings being inducted to the National Recording Registry.

A Koreatown school mural of actress Ava Gardner that has come under fire by critics for what they call similarities to a Japanese imperial battle flag will remain in place for now, the school district announced Monday, reversing an earlier plan to paint over the work.

The hotel busboy who came to Robert F. Kennedy’s aid when the New York senator was shot in Los Angeles has died. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Juan Romero died Monday in Modesto, California, at age 68.

New Mexico, a state with deep historical ties to American Indians whose images and symbols are rooted in everything from the state flag to town names, has moved closer to electing the first Native American woman to the U.S. House of Representatives. Deb Haaland’s victory Tuesday in a Democratic primary for an open congressional seat encompassing the state’s largest city...

A memorial was held at Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, RFK’s grandson, spoke at the event along with Rep. John Lewis and former President Bill Clinton.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. Today, the hotel no longer exists, instead there is a school carrying Kennedy’s name.

Art Placencia was a 21-year-old rookie Los Angeles police officer with only a few weeks on the job when he got the biggest call of his career June 5, 1968.

A now retired LAPD officer remembers the night he responded to the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

A look back at June 5, 1968, a night that turned from jubilation to agonizing grief when Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at a victory rally in Los Angeles.

Juan Romero was a teenage Mexican immigrant working as a hotel busboy 50 years ago when he was thrust into one of the seminal moments of the decade. Romero had just stopped to shake the hand of Robert F. Kennedy on the night of his victory in the California presidential primary on June 5, 1968 when a gunman shot the...

Fifty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following a victory speech. Jaime Regalado, Ph.D., a political scientist and former executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for over 20 years, talks with NBC4’s Conan Nolan about the impact of RFK’s death and what could have been.

Paul Schrade had an up-close view of the Kennedy dynasty in the 1960s and has dedicated his life to the memory of Kennedy.

However he describes the country’s condition on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will defend his accomplishments and lay out his plans before a chamber packed with members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court plus a few choice guests — and with millions of Americans watching on television. It will be the former reality show star’s first State of...

When President Donald Trump called Obamacare disastrous during his first State of the Union address, half of those in attendance rose in applause as social media users flooded Twitter timelines asking if Trump said Opamacare. Christopher Stroop, a Stanford graduate, tweeted: “Will “Opamacare” go down in history with “bigly”? Because hey that’s not how you pronounce that, Donald. Also your...

When Richard and Mildred Loving had the audacity to marry, Virginia law officers jailed them. The state’s highest court later agreed it was right to outlaw their marriage because he was white and she was black. Now, a half century after the Lovings won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage nationwide, the couple has been honored...

The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the building that Bruce Springsteen affectionately dubbed “the dump that jumps,” will have a closing ceremony with city leaders on Thursday.