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JUNE 1968

June 3
Andy Warhol is shot in his New York City loft by Valerie Solanis, a struggling actress, and writer.
June 4/5
On the night of the California Primary Robert Kennedy addresses a large crowd of supporters

at the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco.

He has won victories in California and South Dakota and is confident that his campaign

will go on to unite the many factions stressing the country.

As he leaves the stage, at 12:13AM on the morning of the fifth Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan,

a 24 year old Jordanian living in Los Angeles.

The motive for the shooting is apparently anger

at several pro-Isreali speeches Kennedy had made during the campaign.

The forty-two year old Kennedy dies in the early morning of June sixth.

June 8
Robert Kennedy's funeral is held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

Senator Edward Kennedy, the youngest brother of John and Robert delivers the eulogy.

After the service, the body and 700 guests depart on a special train

for the burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

June 27
As the "Prague Spring" continues in Czechoslovakia Ludvik Vaculik

releases his manifesto "Two Thousand Words".

This essay, criticizing Communist rule in Czechoslovakia

and concluding with an overt threat to "foreign forces" trying

to control the government of the country was seen as a direct challenge

to the Soviet Administration who extended ongoing military exercises in the country,

and began planning for their invasion later in the summer.

June 28
A bill adding a 10 percent surcharge to income taxes

and reducing government spending is signed by President Johnson.

The president effectively admits it has been impossible to provide both "guns and butter."