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June 5, 1968: RFK and Harry Benson
New York Magazine has a chilling story about the death of RFK, illustrated with some amazing images by Harry Benson, whose book published by powerH...
New York Magazine has a chilling story about the death of RFK, illustrated with some amazing images by Harry Benson, whose book published by powerHouse, Photographs from RFK: A Photographer’s Journal, will be released in June.
These images are awfully powerful.
Interestingly, New York excerpts an essay to pair with these images from another photojournalist, Bill Eppridge, whose book A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties, was just released by Abrams.
Take a look, it’s a good read.
Pierre Salinger watching Robert Kennedy declare victory in the California primary on TV.
Kennedy, live at the Ambassador Hotel, just before he was shot.
Kennedy’s wife, Ethel, screaming, “Give him air, give him air.”
Kennedy being tended to after being hit by three bullets, including one to the head. He died 26 hours later.
Writers Jimmy Breslin, far right, and Budd Schulberg, center, shortly after the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, had been subdued.
A campaign worker standing in the spot where Kennedy fell
All images by Harry Benson.
UPDATE: Check out a selection of Bill Eppridge’s images in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
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