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    Paul Schrade dies; union leader survived bullet to the head when Robert F. Kennedy was killed

    Paul Schrade soaked up the excitement as the crowd roared and Robert Kennedy smiled and leaned into the microphone: “So my thanks to all of you, and on to Chicago we go.” Kennedy had just won the 1968 Democratic presidential primary in California, and there was a palpable sense inside the old Ambassador Hotel that the young Massachusetts senator had seized enough momentum to carry his suddenly ...
    by Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2022 3 minutes
    Paul Schrade in November 2006. He was one of five people shot and wounded at the Ambassador Hotel when Bobby Kennedy was assasinated. Schrade died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022.

    Paul Schrade soaked up the excitement as the crowd roared and Robert Kennedy smiled and leaned into the microphone: “So my thanks to all of you, and on to Chicago we go.”

    Kennedy had just won the 1968 Democratic presidential primary in California, and there was a palpable sense inside the old Ambassador Hotel that the young Massachusetts senator had seized enough momentum to carry his suddenly super-charged campaign through to the convention in Chicago.

    And then everything went to hell.

    An auto workers union leader who had introduced Kennedy to powerful labor figures such as

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