He recalls that all she could say was: 'It can't have happened. When he heard the news, he drove her to the airport to fly from New York to California.

Roswell Gilpatric, a senior figure in the Kennedy administration, had been dating Jackie. But now it had happened, it came as a total shock. The idea of assassination had been in the air for months. Three struck Bobby, the first crashing into the right side of his brain. 'Get the gun! Get the gun!' somebody yelled.īullets were flying everywhere. 'Kennedy, you son of a bitch!' Sirhan cried before starting to shoot. Just after midnight on June 5, shortly after claiming victory in the California Primary, Bobby walked through the kitchen area of the Ambassador Hotel and straight into the path of Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian armed with a. In the event, that agreement was overtaken by another sickening chapter in America's political history. The Greek tycoon was pressing Jackie to marry him, but she had assured Bobby there would be no engagement until after the election in November, if at all. She could marry virtually anyone, but there weren't many men around who could afford to take her on.' 'He also understood that she was super-high maintenance. Ken O'Donnell, one of JFK's closest aides, said Bobby was concerned that if Jackie's affair with Onassis became public it would hinder his political ambitions: 'They couldn't marry, so eventually she would marry somebody else. For three years, she had conducted a parallel affair with the fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, one of the few men whom she believed could bankroll her lifestyle and protect her children.

Bobby and Jackie by C. David Heymann