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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 16, 2009.

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Date	Process	Result
May 17, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
June 26, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
August 12, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted
October 1, 2022	Featured article review	Demoted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 5, 2008, June 5, 2009, June 5, 2010, June 5, 2014, June 5, 2018, and June 5, 2023.
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Protection?

Shouldn't this page be protected for being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict? ColorfulSmoke (talk) 00:10, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ColorfulSmoke, we only protect articles when there is an ongoing pattern of vandalism, edit warring or other clear disruption. Cullen328 (talk) 00:12, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Other three major assassinations?

The introduction notes that RFK was "one of four major assassinations in the United States that occurred during the 1960s." While that sentence links to the entire decade of the 60s, a link that explains what the other three assassinations were (presumably MLK JFK and Malcolm X) would probably be appropriate. 150.135.165.56 (talk) 21:32, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What is meant is sourced in the article, but I wouldn't think that Malcolm X's assassination was more important than those of Medgar Evers and Lincoln Rockwell (who is listed at List of assassinated American politicians with the two Kennedys, while the others are not), as well as the killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, all of which are included in the more comprehensive List_of_assassinations#United_States. Dhtwiki (talk) 09:35, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

nonsense about hypnosis

Herbert Spiegel, a Columbia University psychologist, said that Sirhan was probably induced via hypnosis into firing a gun in the direction of Kennedy without knowing what he was doing and without being able to recall either the events or the process of having been programmed.[96] Spiegel suggested that he was in a state of hypnotically-induced amnesia during the time of his arrest as well as afterwards.[97]

Why is this fringe conspiracy nonsense included in the article? -- 2600:8802:571B:E00:8945:7749:7A14:4CB3 (talk) 13:39, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's been removed, all that text was written by one editor with an obvious agenda -REDACTED403 (talk) 11:13, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thane Eugene Cesar. Robert F Kennedy Jr.. "Better source needed"

Currently the article says "Better source needed" concerning Robert F Kennedy Jr. saying that Thane Eugene Cesar was the shooter that fired the shots that hit and killed his father.

Here is a Nov 12, 2023 video of Robert Kennedy Jr. going into detail about that:

Youtube: Robert F Kennedy Jr Names 2nd Shooter Who Killed His Father with Sirhan Sirhan (Part 7). On VLAD TV. By DJ Vlad. Date is found by hovering over the number of views. Date pops up.

--Timeshifter (talk) 08:36, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 3 October 2024

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I am requesting that either I or an approved moderator alter the initials present on the first image of the page. It currently reads "Rfk assassination", It would be better, I feel to re-state the article title as: "Assassination of RFK" Jonnqy (talk) 21:28, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Don't see the point. It's just the file name for the image, doesn't appear in the article at all Cannolis (talk) 21:45, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]