What It Was Like to Report on RFK's Assassination
"You just wanted to put your arms around him and say, ‘Bobby, it’s gonna be OK.'"
Peter Goldman was at home in New York, watching the results roll in from the California presidential primary. It was early in the morning of June 5, 1968, and for a fleeting instant, Robert F. Kennedy seemed poised to capture the Democratic nomination and perhaps follow his slain brother’s footsteps into the White House.
NBC went off the air, but Goldman, a 35-year-old national affairs writer for , stayed awake, flipping through other news channels. Suddenly, he saw footage of a shaken Steve
