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UPI assigned me to cover Robert Kennedy&rsquo;s rally after the results of the California primary were announced, and I was happy to be there. I got to the Ambassador early and went up to the floor where Kennedy and his staff were ensconced, and they let me in to hang out with the group. I photographed Kennedy being interviewed by NBC&rsquo;s Sander Vanocur. My colleague Ron Bennett, who had come down from Oregon to join the UPI staff, showed up, and we flipped a coin to see who would go up on the podium, the preferred spot, and who would shoot from the riser. I lost the flip, but did take one of the last pictures of Senator Kennedy alive, showing his moment of triumph as he made the victory sign. Bennett followed Kennedy off the podium, and back into the hotel&rsquo;s kitchen where the assassin Sirhan Sirhan lurked. Bill Eppridge was also there when the shots were fired, and took the&nbsp;iconic photo&nbsp;of a busboy in a white coat cradling the senator&rsquo;s head. Bill and the senator were really close. He was asked years later: How could he take that picture? And he said, &ldquo;I think that kind of a situation has got to be documented, it has to be told.&rdquo; When I heard the commotion and rumors spread about the senator being shot, I ran outside to where an ambulance pulled up. I took a&nbsp;picture&nbsp;of Ethel Kennedy in the back of the ambulance, but I never saw Robert Kennedy alive again. Even though I didn&rsquo;t know Senator Kennedy well, I had photographed him, talked to him, and he was my inspiration for a career in political photography. History was changed that night by one man with a gun. RFK was on a path to the White House, but we&rsquo;ll never know if he would have made it. Can you imagine a more ironic situation than Richard Nixon losing to a second Kennedy? I never thought about not being in the room, and that I missed the assassination. I don&rsquo;t think I missed it at all. In fact, the way I will always remember Robert Kennedy is in that victory moment, a smile on his face and his future ahead of him. "/> <meta property="twitter:title" content="‘I Want to Be With the Circus’ - 5 of 52"/> <meta name="keywords" content="Optics,Fourth Estate,Media,Campaigns"/> <meta name="description" content="June 5, 1968: RFK’s FINAL MOMENTS A terrible day in American history—and a personally devastating moment—came at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in the wee hours of June 5, 1968. UPI assigned me to cover Robert Kennedy’s rally after the results of the California primary were announced, and I was happy to be there. I got to the Ambassador early and went up to the floor where Kennedy and his staff were ensconced, and they let me in to hang out with the group. I photographed Kennedy being interviewed by NBC’s Sander Vanocur. My colleague Ron Bennett, who had come down from Oregon to join the UPI staff, showed up, and we flipped a coin to see who would go up on the podium, the preferred spot, and who would shoot from the riser. I lost the flip, but did take one of the last pictures of Senator Kennedy alive, showing his moment of triumph as he made the victory sign. Bennett followed Kennedy off the podium, and back into the hotel’s kitchen where the assassin Sirhan Sirhan lurked. Bill Eppridge was also there when the shots were fired, and took the iconic photo of a busboy in a white coat cradling the senator’s head. Bill and the senator were really close. He was asked years later: How could he take that picture? And he said, “I think that kind of a situation has got to be documented, it has to be told.” When I heard the commotion and rumors spread about the senator being shot, I ran outside to where an ambulance pulled up. I took a picture of Ethel Kennedy in the back of the ambulance, but I never saw Robert Kennedy alive again. Even though I didn’t know Senator Kennedy well, I had photographed him, talked to him, and he was my inspiration for a career in political photography. History was changed that night by one man with a gun. RFK was on a path to the White House, but we’ll never know if he would have made it. Can you imagine a more ironic situation than Richard Nixon losing to a second Kennedy? I never thought about not being in the room, and that I missed the assassination. I don’t think I missed it at all. In fact, the way I will always remember Robert Kennedy is in that victory moment, a smile on his face and his future ahead of him. 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class="super-inner"> <article class="content layout-gallery"> <div class="content-group photo-gallery"> <div class="gallery-intro"> <div class="summary"> <header> <p class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://www.politico.com/p/magazine/tag/optics">Optics</a></p> <h1>‘I Want to Be With the Circus’</h1> <p class="subhead">The legendary David Hume Kennerly tells the story behind 50 years of campaign photography.</p> </header> <footer class="meta"> <p class="byline">By DAVID HUME KENNERLY </p> </footer> </div> <div class="actions"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://www.politico.com/p/magazine/tag/optics">« Exit Photo Essay</a> </div> </div> <div class="gallery-media"> <div class="media-object is-photo"> <div class="media-graphic"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746im_/http://images.politico.com/global/2015/04/22/redone_4_1968_0605_rfk_ambassador-gray_1160.jpg" alt=""/> </div> <nav class="media-nav"> <a 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UPI assigned me to cover Robert Kennedy’s rally after the results of the California primary were announced, and I was happy to be there. I got to the Ambassador early and went up to the floor where Kennedy and his staff were ensconced, and they let me in to hang out with the group. I photographed Kennedy being interviewed by NBC’s Sander Vanocur. My colleague Ron Bennett, who had come down from Oregon to join the UPI staff, showed up, and we flipped a coin to see who would go up on the podium, the preferred spot, and who would shoot from the riser. I lost the flip, but did take one of the last pictures of Senator Kennedy alive, showing his moment of triumph as he made the victory sign.</p> <p>Bennett followed Kennedy off the podium, and back into the hotel’s kitchen where the assassin Sirhan Sirhan lurked. Bill Eppridge was also there when the shots were fired, and took the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://life.time.com/history/robert-kennedy-assassination-photographs-by-bill-eppridge-june-1968/#1">iconic photo</a> of a busboy in a white coat cradling the senator’s head. Bill and the senator were really close. He was asked years later: How could he take that picture? And he said, “I think that kind of a situation has got to be documented, it has to be told.” When I heard the commotion and rumors spread about the senator being shot, I ran outside to where an ambulance pulled up. I took a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE020548/ethel-kennedy-in-ambulance-with-spouse">picture</a> of Ethel Kennedy in the back of the ambulance, but I never saw Robert Kennedy alive again. Even though I didn’t know Senator Kennedy well, I had photographed him, talked to him, and he was my inspiration for a career in political photography. History was changed that night by one man with a gun. RFK was on a path to the White House, but we’ll never know if he would have made it. Can you imagine a more ironic situation than Richard Nixon losing to a second Kennedy? I never thought about not being in the room, and that I missed the assassination. I don’t think I missed it at all. In fact, the way I will always remember Robert Kennedy is in that victory moment, a smile on his face and his future ahead of him.</p> </div> <footer class="media-credits"> <p>David Hume Kennerly</p> </footer> </div> <div class="user-tools alt-background-dark"> <ul class="share-tools tools-list" data-share-url="http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/04/i-want-to-be-with-the-circus/002185-031137.html"> <li class="share-facebook"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/facebook/offer?pco=tbx32nj-1.0"><b aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-facebook"></b><span class="icon-text count-facebook">Facebook</span></a></li> <li class="share-twitter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525034746/http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/twitter/offer?pco=tbx32nj-1.0&text=%E2%80%98I%20Want%20to%20Be%20With%20the%20Circus%E2%80%99%20%2D%205%20of%2052"><b aria-hidden="true" class="icon icon-twitter"></b><span class="icon-text 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