Sirhan Sirhan's assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on 6 June 1968 β moments after his California primary victory β removed the candidate most likely to have won the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination and have defeated Richard Nixon in November. Nixon's presidency produced Watergate, prolonged the Vietnam War by four years, and set American politics on a trajectory that RFK's presidency might have fundamentally altered.

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