where was kennedy when he got shot?
Dallas
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 After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States , Kennedy was fatally shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty @-@ six hours later . Sirhan Sirhan , a 24 @-@ year @-@ old Palestinian / Jordanian immigrant , was convicted of Kennedy 's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime . The shooting was recorded on audio tape by a freelance newspaper reporter , and the aftermath was captured on film . 

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 Kennedy had been shot three times . One bullet , fired at a range of about 1 inch ( 2 @.@ 5 cm ) , entered behind his right ear , dispersing fragments throughout his brain . The other two entered at the rear of his right armpit ; one exited from his chest and the other lodged in the back of his neck . Despite extensive neurosurgery at the Good Samaritan Hospital to remove the bullet and bone fragments from his brain , Kennedy died at 1 : 44 A.M. PDT on June 6 , nearly 26 hours after the shooting . 

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 After Kennedy had fallen to the floor , Agent Barry saw Sirhan holding a gun and hit him twice in the face while others , including maîtres d ' Uecker and Edward Minasian , writer George Plimpton , Olympic gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson and former professional football player Rosey Grier of the Los Angeles Rams , forced Sirhan against the steam table and disarmed him as he continued firing his gun in random directions . Five other people were also wounded : William Weisel of ABC News , Paul Schrade of the United Auto Workers union , Democratic Party activist Elizabeth Evans , Ira Goldstein of the Continental News Service and Kennedy campaign volunteer Irwin Stroll . 

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 Once his pictures had been distributed via the wirephoto network , Altgens was sent to Parkland Memorial Hospital along with a second photographer . Both stayed at Parkland until Kennedy 's body was taken by hearse to Air Force One at Love Field . 

entailment
 On the night of July 18 , 1969 , Kennedy was on Martha 's Vineyard 's Chappaquiddick Island at a party he gave for the " Boiler Room Girls " , a group of young women who had worked on his brother Robert 's presidential campaign the year before . Kennedy left the party , driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with one of the women , 28 @-@ year @-@ old Mary Jo Kopechne , and later drove off Dike Bridge into the Poucha Pond inlet , a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island . Kennedy escaped the overturned vehicle , and , by his description , dove below the surface seven or eight times , vainly attempting to reach Kopechne . Ultimately , he swam to shore and left the scene . He contacted authorities the next morning , but Kopechne 's body had already been discovered . 
