Kennedy birthplace to mark 50 years since RFK assassination
June 3, 2018 GMTBROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — The suburban Boston house where Robert F. Kennedy was born is holding special events this week to mark the 50th anniversary of his death...
How the AP covered the RFK assassination 50 years ago
June 4, 2018 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Associated Press Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas was on a one-night political assignment in June 1968 to cover Sen...
Wounded RFK aide from shooting still pushing RFK legacy
June 3, 2018 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Schrade had an up-close view of the Kennedy dynasty in the 1960s.
The union leader got involved in politics during John F...
Busboy who held dying RFK speaks of lingering pain
June 2, 2018 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Juan Romero was a teenage Mexican immigrant working as a hotel busboy 50 years ago when he was thrust into one of the seminal moments of the decade...
AP was there: Journalists recall covering MLK assassination
April 4, 2018 GMTNancy Shipley was working in a news office in Nashville, Tennessee, when the call came 50 years ago...
Burnished in history: How an AP photo showed the cost of war
February 12, 2018 GMTFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Dallas Brown can still see the bullets coming for him 50 years later, smacking into the dirt at his feet as north Vietnamese soldiers fired on his platoon during an ambush deep in the jungle...
AP WAS THERE: The Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive
January 31, 2018 GMTEDITOR'S NOTE — Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam...
AP Was There: The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 4, 2018 GMTMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — In the spring of 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had won victories on desegregation and voting rights and had been planning his Poor People's Campaign when he turned his attention to Memphis, the gritty city by the Mississippi River...
