Bobby Kennedy plunges into frigid Pacific Ocean 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 24 1968)


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(Friday, May 24, 1968; during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1968) — Senator Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for the Oregon’s May 28, 1968, Democratic presidential primary, stripped to his undershorts and plunged into the icy Pacific Ocean waters today at Fort Stevens State Park at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon.