āThe color of the Statue of Liberty. Grows ever more deathly pale. As, loving freedom with bullets, You shoot at yourself, America.ā ā Yevgeny Yevtushenko, āThe Freedom to Kill,ā 1970. On June 5, 1968, a few minutes after midnight, Robert Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles while walking through a narrow serving area called āthe pantry.ā
