Video: 'RFK's final journey: How America stood by train tracks to say farewell'

(Saturday, June 8, 1968, 1:02-9:08 p.m. EDT) — Thousands of mourners lined the tracks and stations, paying their respects as the flag-draped coffin containing the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy was transported today by a slow-moving train to Washington, D.C., for burial at Arlington National Cemetery following a funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.

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The journey, slowed by accidents along the way and great crowds that often forced the train to almost to a stop, lasted more than twice as long as had been expected.

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Kennedy, 42, had been shot and critically wounded June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after he made his victory speech California’s Democratic presidential primary.

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Despite extensive neurosurgery to remove the bullet and bone fragments from his brain, Kennedy was pronounced dead nearly 26 hours after the shooting.

Following Kennedy’s autopsy on June 6, 1968, his remains were taken to Manhattan, where his closed casket was viewed by thousands at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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